Thanks champ!I won't let that happen.
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.Will be a sad day when Grand Isle no longer exists :\
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.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.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 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.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
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.
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.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.
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.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.