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...south Plaquemines Parish, a sinuous ribbon of land between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, not only were all the towns lost to Katrina's fury, but nature itself seems mortally wounded as well. The 30-mile strip of houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water. Groves of orange trees lie half submerged near Triumph. In Empire, almost 1 million gallons of oil have broken out of a giant Chevron storage tank, coating the levees and seeping into the marshland. A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters...
...their presence at the water's edge threatens the natural barriers that should be shielding them. In Louisiana, the Mississippi River has been lashed into tenuous submission, its absorbent delta constricted and carved into channels for oil pipelines and navigation routes. In Alabama and Mississippi, the playground of the Gulf Coast has been developed to the edge of the open water, rebuilt bigger and more audaciously after each storm that wipes...
Charles, La. Since 1930, coastal erosion and channel dredging have destroyed a third of the marshlands that once formed a bulwark between those cities and the Gulf. In some respects, the coast's best defenses were scuttled before the battle with Rita was even joined...
...semester’s schoolwork. She doesn’t know when she will graduate, or whether she will be able to write the thesis she has been planning since last year. For now, it’s all on hold, and like many of the 35 Gulf Coast students temporarily enrolled at Harvard, Noero is caught in limbo...
...Tulane students waited to hear whether or not they should apply for visiting student status at other colleges, those schools moved ahead with classes. Thanks to Harvard’s Sept. 19 start date, the 36 Gulf Coast students here were able to begin classes with the rest of the student body. But most other schools were like Vanderbilt University, where classes were already a week and a half into their syllabi before the 83 Gulf Coast students enrolled as emergency visiting students...