After dealing Louisiana a severe blow, Hurricane Ida weakened as it moved inland but still managed to wreak havoc on portions of the Northeast United States, leading to fatalities and property damage.
A few days before Hurricane Laura made landfall as a category 4 storm in the early hours of Aug. 27, Marie Nelson, associate director of Gilmont Camp and Conference Center in Gilmer, Texas, reached out via email to the administrators of the nonprofit Evergreen Life Services, a community for adults of differing intellectual and developmental abilities in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She wanted to make sure they knew residents and staff from Evergreen would be welcome to shelter at the camp if needed, just as they had done briefly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
루이지애나의 빌록시, 촉타우, 치티마차 부족의 후손들은 기업의 석유 탐사 덕분에 갈림길을 직면하게 되었다. 기후 변화와 함께 수년간의 채취가 저지대에 피해를 주었으며 현재 주민들은 재 정착에 직면하고 있다.
미국장로교회 223차 총회(2018)의 공동총회장인 신디 콜만Cindy Kohlmann 목사는 최근 해수면 상승과 기후 변화가 이 지역에 어떤 영향을 미치는지에 대한 조감도를 얻었다. 사우스 루이지애나 노회는 일부 직원들과 콜만이 석유 추출 효과에 대한 조감도를 위해 작은 비행기를 타도록 계획했다.
Descendants of the Biloxi, Choctaw, and Chitimacha tribes in Louisiana find themselves at a crossroads, thanks to the corporate quest for oil. Years of extraction, along with the changing climate, have taken their toll on the lowlands and now residents are faced with resettlement.
The Reverend Cindy Kohlmann, Co-Moderator of the 223rd General Assembly (2018) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), recently got a bird’s eye view of how rising sea levels and climate change are impacting the area. The Presbytery of South Louisiana arranged for some staff members and Kohlmann to take a small plane for an aerial view of the effects of oil extraction.
Recent heavy rains have caused big problems for parts of eastern Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. As much as 20 inches fell during the storms causing creeks and rivers to spill over their banks and into homes, churches and businesses. In Louisiana, Lower Sabine, Bayou Dorcheat, Little River of Louisiana and the Pearl River have experienced record or near record flooding.