re: Coonasses are bailing from Down-The-Bayou: These Louisiana parishes among top in the U.S.

Plaquemines and St. John aren’t coonass

As for Plaquemines Parish, you can’t go anywhere on the East Bank or anywhere south of Belle Chasse on the West Bank and build a house without having to elevate it anywhere from 4 to 21 feet. Unless you have family land and money to put into building a hurricane proof house, it doesn’t make sense to try and live there.

CPRA will tell anyone who will listen that in 50 years (without serious intervention) , I-10 will be the coastline. I have family in Houma and when I tell them this, the response is “we’ll be dead then so oh well.”

Too many pot-smoking HVAC workers and not enough college-educated STEM and healthcare workers for an economic boom to take place there. Summed it up for you

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CPRA

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Canadian Professional Rodeo Association?

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CPRA will tell anyone who will listen that in 50 years (without serious intervention) , I-10 will be the coastline.

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That's just not true other than east of NOLA but the projections are dire

https://coastal.la.gov/whats-at-stake/a-changing-landscape/
https://cims.coastal.louisiana.gov/masterplan/

You dumbass it's too.

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I live in lower Lafourche. Insurance is my biggest worry. Seeing the rates go up with out limits is my biggest fear. Luckily I live in a small house that doesn’t cost that much to insure at this point, 2k a year for homeowners. Flood insurance is still grandfathered in, but is rising to 3,500 a year. I would dispute that rate because if and when the new maps are implemented my house is in the orange shaded area, but parts of the yard are in the flood area of 1 foot. The maps are still pending for Lafourche. Another fear is the shrinking population or relocation to the northern part of the parish. I can be depressing to go to the grocery store when it was packed in the 90’s and now it is a seemingly ghost town. Same on the roads, I can remember the heavy road traffic to go to Port Fourchon, now there is very little traffic even on 3235, the back road. I was driving around on Friday and some houses look like they have not been touched since the storm. Even on the governmental side, buildings just boarded up and waiting on FEMA to tell them what they will pay for.

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RIP PJ’s Fed Pond

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I don't think enough people left this area because of hurricanes would be enough to matter. IMHO

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I live in LC now and tend to agree with you. I know three families that left after the storm. They all went to Youngsville which is not exactly safe from Hurricanes. They weren’t moving to escape Hurricanes. They moved to Youngsville after being displaced and just really liked it and didn’t want to come back to LC.