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Old New Yorker article about the Atchafalaya
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:22 pm
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Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:24 pm to Mojo74
What’d you just call me???
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:43 pm to Mojo74
I love this shite so I'm gonna read it, but it'll be on the clock rather than on a sunday. But you could at least give us a short summary
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:38 pm to Mojo74
That piece, by John McPhee, has also been collected in a book called The Control of Nature.
The book chronicles three attempts (of varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.
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The book chronicles three attempts (of varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.
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Posted on 8/18/19 at 8:13 am to Yeti_Chaser
Morgan City to be new New Orleans.
Posted on 8/18/19 at 8:43 am to Mojo74
quote:
As a result of settlement patterns, this reach of the Mississippi had long been known as “the German coast,” and now, with B. F. Goodrich, E. I. du Pont, Union Carbide, Reynolds Metals, Shell, Mobil, Texaco, Exxon, Monsanto, Uniroyal, Georgia-Pacific, Hydrocarbon Industries, Vulcan Materials, Nalco Chemical, Freeport Chemical, Dow Chemical, Allied Chemical, Stauffer Chemical, Hooker Chemicals, Rubicon Chemicals, American Petrofina—with an infrastructural concentration equalled in few other places—it was often called “the American Ruhr.” The industries were there because of the river. They had come for its navigational convenience and its
And we are still closer to a third world country than an industrialized, prosperous state
Posted on 8/18/19 at 8:46 am to Mojo74
I read this a few years back on Longform.org - good read.
Posted on 8/18/19 at 8:52 am to tiger7166
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long been known as “the German coast,”
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it was often called “the American Ruhr.”
When was this? Never heard either of those.
Posted on 8/18/19 at 9:05 am to Mojo74
You should post this when the Mississippi River is really high. Not when it’s dropping like a rock.
Posted on 8/18/19 at 12:12 pm to The Boat
Best thing I've read all week , maybe this month.
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