re: When will it be time to abandon Grand Isle, Lafitte, lower Plaquemines, etc?

The problem with this thinking is that the coastal communities of Louisiana carry out vital work for American shipping, energy and seafood industries. America needs what the Louisiana coastal communities do. There will always be a need for people to be here.

quote:

---

When need to get those baws from Dubai to build a barrier island along the SE LA coast.

---

This is the way

When Gonzales becomes a coastal town

I have spent a lot if time down in plaq with the exact people you are talking about. I understand their feelings but at some point the hard decision has to be made. I personally know people who were still getting substantial federal money 3-4 after Katrina. Not to mention all the tax money spent in cleanup and rebuilding.

Mark a point right around Bay st. Louis. Now Mark another point right around Lake Charles or Galveston. Draw the arc between the two points. That's the natural coastline just like it exist everywhere else along the Gulf Coast. Everything below that line is going to continue to be swallowed up by the ocean until we stop trying to control the Mississippi River. All of that land was built by river sediment from the Mississippi River over thousands of years. When we decided to control the path of the river we cut off the ability of that land to be replenished.

Correct, we are only exacerbating the problem with the levees. Hence why I said blow the levees south of BC. Grated that would add to shipping dredging requirements for area but would be a net gain long-term for the state.


At least until the river switched. Then we can get some land built in Terrebonne and Lafourche.

Those places are fine. Just don’t overbuild. The recovery during a natural disaster won’t be near as bad. That area has a natural beauty but is in an inherently dangerous locale. It is what it is.

quote:

---

These are the people who give us our uneducated and trashy reputation. frick em

---

quote:

---

chalmetteowl

---