Article 6QA4E This man saved his town from deadly floodwaters. So why did the US government try to stop him?

This man saved his town from deadly floodwaters. So why did the US government try to stop him?

by
Katie Thornton with photographs by Thalía Juárez
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6QA4E)

Windell Curole built a vast levee to protect his district from disappearing into the ocean - despite federal resistance to his plan. Had he listened to officials, he says, we wouldn't have a community'

On 29 August 2021, as Hurricane Ida made landfall on Louisiana's Gulf coast, 69-year-old Windell Curole sought refuge with others at the three-story Lady of the Sea hospital in Galliano, located 90 minutes south-west of New Orleans.

As Curole looked out the window, watching Ida's rain hammer the grass, a question tormented him: would the levees that encircled his community be tall enough to hold back the water that was surging toward them?

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