December 02, 2022
By Gordon Whittington
If you’ve watched even a single episode of Swamp People, you know South Louisiana is a world unto itself. A uniquely hybridized French-Canadian-Caribbean culture ensures that fact, but the environment also plays a key role. Very little of the thick, damp real estate here lies as much as 50 feet above sea level. In fact, as the world learned during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, parts of New Orleans actually are below it.
This nearly flat topography, combined with so much water draining toward the Gulf of Mexico, makes parts of the region much easier to navigate by boat than by car. But there are a few major highways. One is century-old U.S. 90, which runs southward from Lafayette...
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