Marsh land lost from Ida. Pics

Sorry to see that happen to your place. We aren’t supposed to be living here. We are on a floodplain of the Mississippi River that is sinking rapidly.

We're supposed to be here, just not with a river thats trapped by levees.

That sad man... i helped install some of those seawalls in little lake to help pay for college.

Still don't understand why we are shredding trees from storm damage instead of placing them in the marshes to try help rebuild or at least slow it down a bit. Such a waste.

It cannot be "solved" without getting rid of all the levees and flow controls east of the Great plains.

Too much economic impact. Wont happen. Best we can do is pile rocks up everywhere.

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We're supposed to be here, just not with a river thats trapped by levees.

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If the river were not trapped by levees the habitable land in South Louisiana could not support the population we have. I’m sure you look at satellite maps. Every where in between every major Bayou headed South would flood regularly.

Every place you see green or cypress trees would regularly flood. We are on an alluvial floodplain that is sinking.

There is no way to replicate what the Mississippi River built with water diversion project s and Christmas trees.

This place was built over thousands of years with the Mississippi running at full bore. You can’t recreate a geological timeline.

South Louisiana is meant to support a few Indians that could head to the high ground when the Mississippi would flood.

I know this is an unpopular opinion,if you study the Mississippi and understand elevations you know this is true.

Bingo

My buddy farms the sugarcane south of that area. After the storm he found the roof to one of the boats sheds from Clovelly in his field, along with tons (literally) of marsh grass. Based on a google map distance calculator, the shed was found 3.5 miles south of the launch.

I think by the time they do the mid Barataria diversion it will be to late. It needed to be done 20 years ago. Probably have another 20 years of studies at this point. Also I think it would need to come all the way out to bayou barataria and not just the east side. The wax has had success building up land slowly. We are losing it here faster then what the wax is building it up there.

My parents still live in Lafitte area and it was my grandpa's house that has 2x4s that measure that. Never flooded until a few storms after Katerina. They only had a few inches then. They had 4 1/2 feet for Ida. The marsh was piled up in their yard and shoved up along side their house.

Google Earth computer program is a great tool for looking a land changes. As far as clouds for September they had 2 different September dates and 1 had clouds and the other didn't. The historical clock is the little clock at the top with a green arrow going around it. Click on that and a slide bar pops up and you can usually go back to the 90s for imagery.

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This state/country has gone to very vast lengths to protect new orleans' status as a world port, and lots of people are living where they shouldn't be these days.

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New Orleans is a 300 year old mistake. Bienville set up there because it was a defensible area of the Mississippi. And Bayou St John came in from the North allowing two approaches from sea.

I’m talking about Terrebonne-Lafourche and other coastal communities. You had fishing,trapping and some farming that drove Terrebonne-Lafourche’s economy until oil became a major factor. The place was sparsely populated then.

And every coastal community from Florida to Mexico has taken a big hit or been wiped out in the last 150 years. Besides our area the Deltaic Plain is sinking rapidly and you can’t stop it. Bedrock is pretty far down.

I’ve watched the major part of the marshes and barrier islands was away since I can remember. Almost 60 years as I just made 64.

It makes me very sad.