Holiday Melancholy In Bayou Corne, Louisiana, Home of Giant Sinkhole Caused by An Industrial Accident

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By Julie DermanskyDec 22, 2015, 7:58 am196 pts
Hand-painted standing alligators holding signs that read “Noel” on Tim Brown’s lawn in Bayou Corne, LA, offer holiday cheer in an area where most of his neighbors moved away. Bayou Corne, 77 miles west of New Orleans, has joined the growing list of communities destroyed by industrial accidents. Once…

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