This is the Atchafalaya Swamp, just up the road from Lafayette. You can see the distinct water line on the tree trunks, which shows how high the water level gets in spring. These are mostly new-growth cypress trees, the old-growth trees having long ago been cut down to feed the maws of northern factories.
John Mcphee's book "Control of Nature" has a section on the near failure of the Atchafalaya Control Structure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_River_Control_Structure
If it had failed, New O would have been left high and dry.
Unrealistic expectations by the low-info independents? Voted R in 2016, but Trump didn’t give them a pony. So voted D in 2020, but Joe Biden didn’t give them a pony, either. Damn politicians.
How the heck did this get here? I thought I was replying to ‘Biden’s low approval rating’!