Cario is a mini New Orleans, it sits in a flood prone bowl, it is also a social cesspool hardly worth saving at any cost.
Man proposes, but nature disposes. Puny man thinks he can control the actions of rivers like the Mississippi, which is a fool’s course of action, for the river will win out in the end.
I seldom (as in hardly ever) hear a discussion of the disaster waiting to happen at the Little River Control Structures. They damn near lost the whole shebang during the big 1973 flood, so they built the Old River Auxiliary Control Structure. But, for all the construction, higher and higher levees, the Mississippi will one day surely breach at Old River. Divert, and cascade down the Atchafalaya River and into the Atchafalaya flood plain as it has done at least twice in recorded history.
And the result of the entire Mississippi River channelization for flood control has been, the subsidence of now settled former natural wetlands, making them ever more prone to flooding when (not if) the river levees fail. Not to mention the loss of Louisiana coastline, which has receded several thousand feet in just the past few decades.
But, I am just an old fart with a eighth grade education, so what do I know.
My bad, Little River Control Structures. Should read Old River Control Structures.