Parts of Louisiana Will Be Lost.

[JBP55]

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[mickey]

There is a lot of development in coastal areas in Florida mainly, but areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama apply.

If this swallowing of the sea were a thing, why would lenders be forking out tens of millions for projects?

 

[Major]

Will be a sad day when Grand Isle no longer exists :\

 

[twinin]

I believe it's happening because I see it fishing off the coast, but not at the rate that these people say.

I grew up in Chalmette and went to college in 2000 before Katrina. I was taught in college by very educated people and told over and over that St. Bernard parish would be all waterfront property by the year 2020.

 

[LesserDoom]

I won't let that happen.

 

[Major]

I won't let that happen.

Thanks champ!

GI has the best crabbing in the state!

 

[sandman7925]

Will be a sad day when Grand Isle no longer exists :\

I work offshore and fly over it every hitch. I often look down and think that little sliver of land is living on borrowed time. From the air there is not much to it.

 

[Trailboss]

Long before Global Warming/Man-made Climate Change, most of the southern plains were covered by a shallow sea. It will happen again, the real question is when, and the false narrative is why.

 

[AK shooter]

 

[WhereIsIt?]

Long before Global Warming/Man-made Climate Change, most of the southern plains were covered by a shallow sea. It will happen again, the real question is when, and the false narrative is why.

And rivers had flood seasons... People knew when it would happen, they would leave and then come back. These days that doesn't happen. No one leaves.

Tactitools and blanket statements... Welcome to Bayoushooter.

 

[Xeon64]

Is it wrong that I want this to happen. I can not afford water front property right now. But if the water front comes to me....

 

[LouisianaJoe]

Long before Global Warming/Man-made Climate Change, most of the southern plains were covered by a shallow sea. It will happen again, the real question is when, and the false narrative is why.

In 1963, I was sitting on a hill on the Mississippi State Campus and I dug up fossilized sea shells on the hill. The earth is in a constant state of change.

In South Louisiana, the land is sinking, not the ocean rising. https://www.livescience.com/4186-real-reason-louisiana-sinking.html

 

[AK shooter]

In 1963, I was sitting on a hill on the Mississippi State Campus and I dug up fossilized sea shells on the hill. The earth is in a constant state of change.

In South Louisiana, the land is sinking, not the ocean rising. https://www.livescience.com/4186-real-reason-louisiana-sinking.html

In parts of Louisiana yes. There are canals down the atchafalaya River that I used to be able to navigate by tugboat but cannot now due to sediment buildup. All that stopped from the Mississippi river when they built the levee system.

 

[Danny Ross]

I used to live in Cut Off, maybe 40 years ago. I drove down there about 10 years go and a lot of what used to be land was then water,but it was subsidence, not rising water, that was the cause.

 

[snake doctor]

Drive around New Orleans and look at the fire hydrants. If the streets have not been repaired recently, then you will see hydrants that are as high as your waist or more from subsiding land.

 

[MOTOR51]

Drive around New Orleans and look at the fire hydrants. If the streets have not been repaired recently, then you will see hydrants that are as high as your waist or more from subsiding land.

I think that’s to keep it above flood like and not from the ground sinking. I might be wrong though.


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[john17427]

In parts of Louisiana yes. There are canals down the atchafalaya River that I used to be able to navigate by tugboat but cannot now due to sediment buildup. All that stopped from the Mississippi river when they built the levee system.

Subsidence in coastal Louisiana is a constant process or so I was taught decades ago. I believe the issues started when the levee systems were put in place that stopped the natural replenishment and build up of sediment in the coastal areas. Not a geologist though.

 

[sandman7925]

Subsidence in coastal Louisiana is a constant process or so I was taught decades ago. I believe the issues started when the levee systems were put in place that stopped the natural replenishment and build up of sediment in the coastal areas. Not a geologist though.

I have spoken to a geologist about it and yes you are correct. Used to be when the river flooded south Louisiana it would leave a millimeter or two of sediment. And it did that for centuries so it added up. But no more.

 

[folivier]

And the sediment from the Miss. river would sweep around to the west and deposit along the coast through the marshes. Now with the levees built as far south as they are the sediment just drops down to the continental shelf but the currents continue west to cause erosion. That is manmade.

 

[Emperor]

If this state was serious about land loss, they would remove all the levees on both sides of the Mississippi River from Belle Chasse to Venice! Other than that, it's all feel good BS!