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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Blame the levees.
Louisiana - Half under water, the other half under indictment.
Bush’s fault!
It never looked like that first road sign to begin with unless you count the boundary lines showing the gulf and lakes and rivers appearing solid.
That damned hurricane machine of Cheney’s !!!
Yeah and Yosemite used to be under a glacier so the point of this article is the earth changes. Get over it you global warming freakazoids
Freegards
LEX
Thailand?
‘Louisiana - Half under water, the other half under indictment.’
Lol!
+1
I question the intelligence of anyone who lives below sea level.
And all of Mississippi and Texas are under water.
FYI
Louisiana is the river delta of the Mississippi River. It was never “solid land”. River deltas have always shifted and moved and gone under water or emerged. Half of Louisiana is just not really there.
“Roll on Mississippi,
Big river roll...”
My shooting range is in Arnaudville. Last time I looked on Google Satellite view, my Jeep was parked at the pistol range :)
The same can be said of those who die there.
I came across some nutria or river rats in TX and did some research on them. I read that Louisiana loses 40 miles of land because of them every year, as they eat the vegetation that helps to keep the water back.
Great.
This will give Algore something to cackle about since his other predictions have been so way off base.
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