Inside Louisiana’s Sinking Communities | Belle River | The New Yorker Documentary 

And sound design too!

dawg where are their hearts going to be when they go underwater. They need us to do something. They need moorings just as much as roadways.

A lot of ppl speak French in Louisiana 😊❤

This is how Tagalog sounds to a Spanish speaker. I speak Spanish

France once had control of Louisiana :)

​@@FuneraryGirlExactly

J'ai eu la même réaction, super facile à comprendre pour moi qui suis québécoise

In every state....Not just this one.

I'm up north and where they're were once farmlands and fiesta we have more highways and students went McMansions. We barely get snow anymore. We f* up big time. I for one won't be sorry to see us go. Nature comes back wherever humans leave!

Nay, friend, lose not hope. For Louisiana (pls check your spelling), is a place where the warmth touches all, the gumbo feedeth the insides, and the heart flourishes.

or resilience.

Cajun french to be exact, it reminded me of my grandma,grandpa, aunt's and uncles talking, I miss those days, that language is dying off, but I seen they teaching students at different schools in new Orleans...

@@coolbreeze3338 That's really amazing. I really hope they are still teaching the language. Thank you for sharing.

@@soniaguerrero5582 your very welcome, I seen it on RU-vid awhile back...

They are teaching the real French in the schools not Cajun french.

It used to be the main language of Louisiana. Just a generation ago, it was very common to hear in the countryside. In 25/30 years, those numbers of fluent speakers have basically been cut in half. Pretty sad.

Thank you.

And apparently it wasn’t the first time.

yikes

The dirty south, not proud and not ashamed, can’t stay gone too long, Louisiana calls my name.

what that to do with any of this at all..............go sit down oh yeah f...........u..........k........... t......r......u.....m........p.......

At the rate they’re going it won’t last much longer. And the conditions are only horrendous because greed got in the way. If they build around the land and not against it, things could have been different

We’re not a wealthy nation. We are bankrupt and broke.

@@thelastvalkyrie1998 most accurate comment I have seen here. The reason these people are dealing with high water in the documentary is floodwater, not rising sea levels. DONT LIVE WHERE IT FLOODS is the simple answer.

Money cannot buy the love this community has for one another. We are very rich here.

​@@codyscrivener3065it happened because a spillway was opened

it's so out of place

this doc is just more “news” with an agenda sadly

The song is called “Mon Coeur T’apelle” by Cleoma Breaux

@@LATEIR thank you. Cleoma was the sister to the Breaux Brothers

They started out above sea level, but the ground sank beneath them.

The ground sank lol sure that’s what happened. Lol

They keep to themselves in Louisiana despite being very abundant in the state (most alligators in the whole country) The reason why you see so many alligator interactions in Florida is because the entire state of Florida is getting urbanized so the wildlife is being forced to coexist or killed

And water moccasins

Many places of the US are overpopulated, and therefore, wildlife adapts to the intrusion. We need less in this country...

Please do not use phrases such as “odd” when speaking on my culture. They are speaking Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) & Cajun French, not French. Of course you dont understand. French is not the dominant culture. Louisiana Creoles & our specific Creole language is.

@@LATEIRWhere can I learn more? Does everyone who knows Cajun French also know Kouri-Vinci? I only know French.

​@@LATEIRje me disais la même chose. Calling other people langue odd is odd

@@ReineDeLaSeine14unfortunately Cajun French is a dying language, when my grandma was in school in the late 40’s early 50’s they stopped allowing French to be spoken and they got in a lot of trouble if they did. By doing that most of us younger people don’t know how to speak Cajun French. With that being said some universities down here are teaching Cajun French classes now so hopefully we can teach enough to keep Cajun French going and not completely dying out

@@ReineDeLaSeine14as well as Kouri-Vinci too

Hugs cuz

I wouldn’t call it poetic at all, because everyone is suffering those same consequences, not just the people who vote for greedy fools.

I accept climate change I don’t accept windmills and solar farms to fix it. That money invested in the conservation reserve program would have a much more positive effect. Or to build smart wetlands in at country to clean out the fertilizer and prevent erosion

can wait to see florida swallowed by the ocean.

@@johnpaschal3217 Most Republicans deny it.

You don’t understand the delta down there its not climate change its because they made New Orleans and devirted and slowed the rivers down thats why land is getting washed away look it up df

Too many morons in government...nothing will ever get fixed & China is gonna nuke us! I have a nice hobby! Do something useful with yourself!! I sew blankets for homeless doggies & their human. Trying to be usefull before Zombie Apocolipts (sp?)

What part of New York has water in the streets like this ?

@@habituallinestepper3927It will give it time!

​@@habituallinestepper3927not like this of course. But hurricane Sandy really showed how bad the potential problems could be. It flooded a lot then.

We speak our own Creole language just like any other Creole nation. We speak Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole)

Those who can't afford high ground live in lower lying areas while animals can only live in the flood plane because everywhere is developed. I see it where I live an area that floods.

You darn tootin

They live there because of poverty and there will be more people in swamps in the future. Expect to see more people living in water as the poor get poorer and sea levels rise.

and when the ice caps melt what you think u gonna happen to new york u think you gonna be dry?

It's ignorant smoothbrains like you who got us here, so congratulations, I guess.

We still have to try and adapt.

Yes 😂

So what

Them "dolla indians."

Cajun French

In some scenes they are speaking Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole), an other scenes they’re speaking Cajun French.

I was wondering the same thing. I’ve spent some time down in South Louisiana and it is one of the happiest places I’ve very been. Sad they chose not to capture that side of it

It's not overly somber. These people are facing hardship but they are doing it bravely. People struggle and that's just reality not "overly" anything. If you find rich people more relatable there are documentaries about them too.

Yes

then you lying

Are you going to tell them stop being poor too? How wise you are!

Easier said than done.

It’s almost like the sea level is changing, clown.

We need the water here, keep the poor water management out west. The land here is compacting under its own weight, and thus sinking. The mississippi river and others naturally flooded the land and desposited sediment to keep the land replenished. Now, the river is contained in levees for shipping channels, and all the sediment is dumped far out in the edge of the gulf. The mississippi river would naturally flow west near baton rogue, if the Corp of Engineers didnt build the old river diversion structure to maintain the shipping channels to NOLA and BR. That west ward flow would go into the Atchafalya basin, as it naturally has many many times, and be building new land in that entire area right now.

Cost? Evaporation? It's not all that easy.

People like that are dirt poor. How do you think they are going to move with nowhere to go. Have you looked at the price of housing or rentals lately?

@@stephaniewalsh67 I hear you. I suppose a pair of big boots and a fishing pole is better than moving. Become boat people?

Compared to other parts of south Louisiana Pierre Part is actually above sea level. This documentary highlights the fact that all of these people live within the Atchafalaya flood plain which is unfortunately the first to flood when the Morganza spillway is opened as a result of the Mississippi River being above flood stage to the point that cities like Baton Rouge and New Orleans would be in jeopardy because of the levels of water potentially causing levee collapses. The a big cause of this flooding, along with the loss of land is the fact that the Mississippi river has been completely leveed off which increases flow rates, decreases sediment dispersion and by the time it gets to the gulf doesn't have a chance to build land the way it used to.