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The Last Days of Isle de Jean Charles: A Louisiana tribe’s struggle to escape the rising sea

Por: The Advocate Politics September 17, 2022

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ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES - When she was a girl, Theresa “Betty” Billiot would open the back door to a view of cattle grazing in pastures, cotton fields and wild prairie dotted with duck ponds. Now she opens the same door and sees nothing but the rising sea.“You got to watch where you walk because you might sink,” she said, stabbing a soggy backyard path with her shovel, a tool she uses to both ward off snakes and test the stability of the... + full article



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