Mike Tidwell is director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and author of 'Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities' (2007) and 'Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast' (2004). His e-mail is [email protected].
It was 20 years ago that French-speaking fishermen first told me that Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ida were coming to Louisiana. These Cajun oystermen and shrimpers didn't know the actual names, of course. They just knew that historically massive storms would soon wipe out the state as sure as the sun sets over the Gulf of Mexico. Even then, two decades ago, the rising seas and eroding wetlands were inflicting pain.
And now, for destroying every major power line into New Orleans and darkening the homes of a million people across Louisiana? For leaving some COVID-filled hospitals with no air conditioning and trapping whole families in their flooded attics? Take your pick: Hurricane Phillips? Hurricane Royal Dutch Shell? All of which raises the question: Who should pay for the suffering and destruction in Louisiana today? The economic hit to the state and the nation will veer into the tens of billions.
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