Latest Gulf Storm Brings Tough Choices for Residents of Disappearing Isle de Jean Charles

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By Julie DermanskyJul 18, 2019, 1:31 am170 pts
Read time: 9 mins While most of Louisiana was spared Barry’s wrath last week, Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, was not. A storm surge swept over the island, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, early in the morning on July 13 before Barry…

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