By Keith Magill – Houma Today – January 14, 2012

What impressed me most as I read the state's latest plan to save its coast is the map. A sea of red, representing an encroaching Gulf of Mexico, consumes almost every inch of every inhabited community south of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. And the parts that are left within 50 years look like they would flood so often it would make them impractical to inhabit. Dulac? Gone. Cocodrie. Underwater. Dularge? History. Montegut. A memory. Almost all of southern and central Lafourche would be ringed by the parish's hurricane-protection levee — if it's built high enough and strong enough to hold against the Gulf of Mexico. No wetlands would remain to buffer it from waves and storm surges. For map and full story, click here.