Posted on 09/18/2014 11:58:52 AM PDT by blam
The boot-shaped state isn’t shaped like a boot anymore. That’s why we revised its iconic outline to reflect the truth about a sinking, disappearing place.
By Brett Anderson
September 8, 2014
Photographs by William Widmer
Illustrations by Matthew Woodson
Early this year, I drove from Arnaudville, Louisiana, to Morgan City, hoping to walk where I’d heard there was land.
Arnaudville is in Cajun country, in the southern part of the state. Morgan City is roughly halfway between Lafayette and New Orleans, if you take the Highway 90 route. Directionally speaking, that’s all I knew.
I was aware Arnaudville is just outside Lafayette, but I couldn’t have told you in what direction, even though I’d been there several times before. Compulsive use of my smart phone’s map apps has eroded whatever navigational confidence — and, by extension, awareness — I ever possessed of areas outside New Orleans, where I’ve lived for over a dozen years. And this part of Cajun country can be disorienting. Boats traverse rice fields flooded in winter for crawfish production, and the slow-running bayous look innocuous until you get trapped on the wrong side of one. In Arnaudville, I met a tourist from Arkansas who, upon entering the tasting room at Bayou Teche Brewing, announced, “We tried to Google this place and ended up in a muddy swamp by the levee over there.”
I was gearing up to feel a variation on that pain myself as I made my way from Arnaudville to Morgan City. It was the first in a planned season of road trips during which I’d compare the facts on the ground in coastal Louisiana with the facts as presented by the official state maps produced by government agencies. Paper maps.
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That pic has been photoshopped. The clouds are identical on both views.
nj.
And there are no screws holding the second sign to the post.
Its the actual boundaries of Michigan.
The one on the right is the politically correct Globull Warming map of Lose-siana. . .
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Louisiana is both the country’s second-biggest crude oil producer and refiner and the largest entry point for crude oil coming into the U.S. (It is also near the top in the nation in total and per capita energy consumption, a reminder that producing energy requires a lot of fuel.) Oil and gas removal exacerbates subsidence of land, and the canals the companies have dug through the marsh disrupt the delicate balance of salt and freshwater in wetlands, killing plant and wildlife and causing erosion on the interior swamp and marsh already threatened on the outside
by global sea level rise.
It’s silly even without the photoshop job. Did neighboring MS annex a 40 mile strip of LA or did the land between just go missing?
IIRC if the Mississippi River had its way it would be flowing down the Atchafalaya River from somewhere around Baton Rouge. Levees are preventing it.
Maybe the artist forgot there is land there. Who knows, and they ain’t sayin’...
LOL!
“And what happened to all the federal (tax) dollars given to LA for coastline engineering???”
Mary Landrieu’s father, Mayor Landry, used it to buy votes and favors.
Italy still kicks @ss, though ...
“nutria or river rats in TX”
We call them nutria or “boomers” in Oregon. They can’t keep up with the vegetation growth here. Plenty of sustenance for them and they are huge and fat. Have yet to try the meat, but in perilous times might just be the ticket to survival.
yes, but two hands held at angles to each other are more recognizable.
Actual sea level rise recently (last ten years) is about 2 inches.
I read that they were originally brought to Oregon to be raised for their fur. The ones I saw came out of the river and were aggressively chasing my grandson as he was feeding ducks. Ugly!
Spicy food, lots of natives paddling around in dugout canoes, mangrove forests, alligators (or crocs), a Civil Law system, more than a little corruption.
Sounds like Thailand to me.
Deleware?
According to that sign, I’m underwater...
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