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Topic: Leeville: A look at the real
world beyond the levees |
Leeville: A look at the real
world beyond the levees
USA Today, by Rick Jervis
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Posted By:MissMolly, 2/23/2013 6:06:39 AM
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| LEEVILLE, La. – At the 85th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, an independent Louisiana-shot film, Beasts of the Southern Wild will be up for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, for its fictional account of a desolate band of folks living beyond the levees. Nearly 2,000 miles away, this fishing community deep in the bayous of southern Louisiana is the real-life place beyond the levees, a place where residents eke out a living selling bait fish, brace for destruction each time a large storm looms and watch the Gulf of Mexico´s steady march toward their front porches.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
LouD, 2/23/2013 8:20:24 AM (No. 9192140)
I´m just wondering how the Gulf of Mexico can be rising in Louisiana, but holding steady here on the west coast of Florida? Is the earth tilting so the water runs towards LA? Or could it be that the land is just washing away, and they think the sea is rising? Or mabe the land is sinking? Oh, yeah. I forgot! Global warming. It only affects things locally. Hell, if you are 50 feet away, it could be warm where you are and freezing cold over there.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 2/23/2013 8:43:02 AM (No. 9192186)
#1, I know, it´s just bizarre that a heavily engineered river delta would have portions that are losing elevation. Global warming, is there anything it can´t do?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine, 2/23/2013 10:55:13 AM (No. 9192405)
The coast line in Louisiana has been eroding for decades. Nothing new about this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lagniappe, 2/23/2013 11:29:24 AM (No. 9192448)
The land south of Lake Pontchartrain was created by the Mississippi River. Like all deltas, it is a slow process of ebb and flow between the forces of the river and the forces of the ocean.
The problems began when the levees were built all the way down to the tip of the boot of Louisiana and the river now empties into the deep waters of the Gulf.
The mouth of the river is constantly dredged, but the sand is flushed out to sea. There is an effort to have the Corp of Engineers to pump the sand into the marsh, but "policy" will not allow this.
What is working is "siphons" that allow river flow in high river conditions to be converted to the marsh.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bugboy, 2/23/2013 1:03:38 PM (No. 9192550)
Get a Louisiana map. Put your finger on Alexandria and sweep and arc from the mouth of the Sabine River in the west to Mobile Bay in the east everything is deposited mud and silts from the Calcasieu, Atchfalaya and Mississippi rivers.
The Atchfalaya is the ancient course of the Mississippi. For years the Mississippi has been trying to re-route itself down the Atchfalaya. If you look at the confluence of the Red River, Atchfalaya and Mississippi your will find a very large concrete dam holding back the Mississippi from leaving it´s current course.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 2/23/2013 10:19:38 PM (No. 9192971)
Another Marxist agenda movie.... supporting the theft of land by gov´t. Cuomo is trying to buy up all NJ / NY coastline property for use as parks... Obama is declaring millions of acres as Nat´l Monuments where humans are not allowed.
Take a peek at Utopian map drawn up by the NWO crowd; Humans are only allowed in densely populated cities.
If you want to cry, go to the newly formed President´s Global Development Council website & learn what Utopia is like!
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