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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