Reduction in force.” That, in turn, meant there weren’t really enough workersĪround to properly shut down these plants before Laura, and there likely won’tīe enough people around to clean up the petrochemical messes Laura may have caused but that we haven’t heard about yet. “And this hasĬaused a number of these facilities to reduce production, which means a
People traveling, so there’s less demand for oil,” he said. “Since Covid came along, you have fewer people flying, fewer Problem is, nobody can fish if theyīeard Jr., who spent 38 years with Exxon before founding his own company, Pa-can, Louisiana’s singularly amazing coastal ecology. According to the local paper, Katrinaĭamaged 100 oil platforms and 400 pipelines, spilling almost 11 million gallons of oil into Louisiana’s supposedly 4,300 orphaned wells rustingĪway in Louisiana’s gorgeous marshes.
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Worrisome were the reported 1,400 active oil wells in Laura’s path, plus Local government to all residents close enough to inhale the fumes. Laura lit a chlorine plant on fire, bringing a shelter-in-place order down from I started to reach out to contacts in the region, who confirmed a familiar And in the days following Hurricane Laura, Hardest hit was Lake Charles, a roughly half-Black, half-white city of 80,000 people who, together, on Katrina’s anniversary, absorbed the biggest hurricane to hit Louisiana in 160Ĭatastrophe we call Katrina, my mind quickly goes to recurring risk factors Residents, and started at least one massive chemical fire. Within 24 hours, Laura caused six deaths, knocked out running water for 200,000 Louisiana’s Cameron Parish as a Category 4, with 150 mph Marco petered out, but Laura tracked west and finally touched down in Triggers upon triggers by the time Hurricanes Marco and Laura appeared on theĭoppler radar last week, both of them predicted to smack New Orleans right in Traumas for a mildly interested American public.
But then Katrina’sĪnniversary returns and we’re all forced to remember The Big One, reliving our Never see another photo of any floodwaters ever again. Timelines, as our climate continues to change. Photos of floodingįrom New Orleans and all over America regularly dominate social media Must endure smiling visitors constantly asking, “Were you here for Katrina?” The question immediately recalls the worst traumas of their lives. Whole blocks converted into short-term rentals- faux-tels in local parlance-that currently sit empty Neighborhood,” the Treme, became the city’s newest white neighborhood, with Katrina’s protracted housing crisis, and soon the country’s “oldest Black Union-busting charter schools, with community control swapped out for Locals, though, don’t see an uplifting comeback story. Today, a touristĬould look around at the cleaned-up, renovated city and forget the flood ever This ends up leading to public policies that don’t take into account the livedĮxperienced and material needs of marginalized communities.”Ībundantly true in New Orleans in the 15 years since Katrina. Killing and raping each other,’ but none of those segments mentioned theĭisproportionate impacts of storms on communities of color,” said Cooper. “The mainstream media definitely played up the angle, ‘They’re animals, they’re Researcher for Media Matters who analyzed 669 news segments covering Louisiana’s last severalīig hurricanes, Cooper’s also a native New Orleanian whom Katrina forced out. True,” Evlondo Cooper told me over the phone this week. Stories about what was happening in the Superdome, which turned out not to be
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