Left to Louisiana’s Tides, a Village Fights for Time
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Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, United States |
For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.
A view of Jean Lafitte along Bayou Barataria. The town is just a couple of miles south of greater New Orleans’s fortresslike levee system. William Widmer for The New York Times