re: I went to Pointe a la Hache today.

There is hardly anyone down the road that far and you don’t need cops when everyone knows each other. There ain’t no who done it on the east bank.

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I went to Pointe a la Hache today.

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it is actually an easy drive from metairie. helped build a camp a few miles south of Stella Plantation. exactly one hour from my house...or three beers.

the grocery next to the courthouse is the real deal. enjoy a sandwich from there.
obviously, things really changes after katrina, and i forgot the storm that followed immediately after katrina. not a whole bunch of people moved back.
it is accurate that you rarely see cops....unless the "right" person calls them. most that live down there would prefer handle things on their own.
some really good fishing, and easy hunting down there. easy drive to get away from the city.

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It is literally in the middle of nowhere. A nice, modern (empty) courthouse at the end of the world. There is nothing else there, not even a gas station. And the fine citizens of Plaquemines Parish actually voted to move the courthouse back there. WTF were they thinking?

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The parish is a political mess right now. We have a select few on the council, that despite pleas from their constituents, that have signed up our already broke parish to pay 800 million for a bridge that costs around 150 million to build over 30 years. It makes absolutely zero fricking sense.

Also, and this isn’t anything recent, we have the perpetual battle of up the road versus down the road. Everyone from down the road (or the eastbank) is always crying about how everything is unfair and up the road (the white people) gets everything while the down the road people get nothing. It’s quite comical that they don’t understand that money gets spent in accordance with population

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citizens of Plaquemines Parish

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WTF were they thinking?

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Those 2 phrases to not belong together.

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Give the east bank side to St Bernard...

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St. Bernard is having trouble keeping up with the size land we have, given we are still 20K or so residents short of pre-Katrina. Why would we want to take on more land to protect, with few taxpayers to pay for it?

Everyone outside the wall is already complaining about service cuts. This would make it worse.

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WTF is past Bohemia?.

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I had routes for my work down there, so I could name all the small towns

Starting from Caernarvon by EBI, the part that I consider Braithwaite, by that little park and their auditorium, the old golf course, English Turn, the Belle Chasse ferry landing, the last dollar store, Scarsdale, the Stella Plantation area, Promised Land, Bertrandville, Woodlawn, Wills Point, Carlisle, Phoenix, home of a pretty good class C basketball team, the locked up fishing camps of Harlem, Davant, home of United Bulk Terminals, with a park that has a swimming pool, community center, basketball courts, baseball field, and a lake, then you’d pass a huge arse jail in the middle of nowhere, a bar with no signs on it, and then Pointe A La Hache, with a food store, post office, fire and ambulance station, courthouse, and law offices. Last but not least is Bohemia, and the area of the Pointe A La Hache marina...

You used to be able to go down a dirt road to a plant past Bohemia, but a natural waterway called Mardi Gras pass swamped it

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The Plaquemines Parish Counsel voted unanimously in opposition to the Mid-Barataria Diversion. They want to protect their "way of life" and some other dumb shite.

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because supposedly those diversions will kill oyster beds

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So...we have a courthouse at the end of the world. However, the people who run the store next door

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It is literally in the middle of nowhere. A nice, modern (empty) courthouse at the end of the world. There is nothing else there, not even a gas station.

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I had routes for my work down there, so I could name all the small towns

Starting from Caernarvon by EBI, the part that I consider Braithwaite, by that little park and their auditorium, the old golf course, English Turn, the Belle Chasse ferry landing, the last dollar store, Scarsdale, the Stella Plantation area, Promised Land, Bertrandville, Woodlawn, Wills Point, Carlisle, Phoenix, home of a pretty good class C basketball team, the locked up fishing camps of Harlem, Davant, home of United Bulk Terminals, with a park that has a swimming pool, community center, basketball courts, baseball field, and a lake, then you’d pass a huge arse jail in the middle of nowhere, a bar with no signs on it, and then Pointe A La Hache, with a food store, post office, fire and ambulance station, courthouse, and law offices. Last but not least is Bohemia, and the area of the Pointe A La Hache marina...

You used to be able to go down a dirt road to a plant past Bohemia, but a natural waterway called Mardi Gras pass swamped it

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but since betsy there were no houses past bohemia.... you couldn't go far before mardi gras pass.. just the siphon

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because supposedly those diversions will kill oyster beds

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Well..freshwater has been known to do that