[Louisiana] really has severe coastal erosion problems, ... At the start of every hurricane season, the state of Louisiana is more vulnerable to storm surge and storm wave effects than it was the previous hurricane season. |
[PELICAN ISLAND:] Pretty bad shape, ... It's been breached in several areas and there's not much sand there. |
A lot of small ponds that were isolated from the Gulf are now exchanging waters with the Gulf, ... lots of sand removal leaving the marsh exposed to the Gulf. |
Again, this is a fairly wide barrier island, ... It's in pretty good shape. |
An easy way for the public to grasp it is we lose a football field every 15 to 30 minutes. |
Certainly there's a lot less sand behind those breakwaters since Hurricane Katrina, ... But, having said that, it looks like it could have been a lot worse. |
Chandeleur Island pretty much was erased by Hurricane Ivan and it was starting to recover, |
easy to state, but most of the time, as in this case, the evidence doesn't support it. |
If we don't get it now, folks, after two major events, we're not getting it, ... The harsh reality is that our delegation in Washington is incredibly weak. |
If you can picture sort of a soup bowl, the city is located in the middle. And once the levees — sort of the perimeter of the bowl — are breached or overtopped, then that water gets in there and just can't get out.... It's like filling a bucket up with water. This is probably the worst-case scenario that we've all been very, very worried about for quite some time. |
In the fullness of time, the tsunami was just another bad day in the life of the coral reef. It will recover. |
Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously. |
New Cut remains elevated above sea level, |
Obviously, this will have an effect on the health of Lake Pontchartrain, and it will take years for that lake to recover. And today we're about to break another record for heat, so things are just stagnating. |
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