Shout-out to the folks who clean up ⁦New Orleans JazzFest⁩ . An hour and 15 minutes after Widespread Panic wrapped up, the Festival Stage field is spotless

The impetus behind the legislation is to bring attention to the fact that taxpayers are funding these 'free' services. #lalege

Why!!???

Just out, by yours truly, in the latest PRC New Orleans Preservation in Print Magazine:
'Before the Pontchartrain Expressway:
A Peak at What We Lost'

Tulane Architecture

In the 18 years since Katrina, Louisiana’s southernmost territories had started to hollow out, steadily accelerating their quiet migration northward as Louisianans fled their coast.

It is, indeed, the next great migration already well underway. propublica.org/article/climat…

Check out this leaf insect! Leaf insects stay safe in their forest home by looking just like the leaves surrounding them. Their disguise is one of the best found in nature, even copying the veins and brown edges found on leaves. 🍃

Removing drainage lines that have filled with garbage is less an 'upgrade' and more an admission of zero maintenance.

Lent Fish Fry Friday: metro-New Orleans list of all schools/ churches — Slidell to Waggaman — serving fish plates, shrimp, and gumbo.
clarionherald.org/news/ready-set… *UPDATED 🎣

So sad to read this. Helen Centanni was a very talented news producer. She will be missed.

This program gives people a direct discount on their property insurance for putting a stronger roof on their homes. Wrote about how this is one of the few programs in place that addresses the underlying issues in the insurance crisis: nola.com/news/business/…

Matt, I don't ever recall the Quarter (Jackson Square!) flooding in the past. So this was a pump failure?

Here’s the old boy. ⁦SWB New Orleans⁩ #S teamPowered #Turbine4 . Reportedly built by #ThomasEdison , yeah, that Thomas Edison, and Edison electric for Niagara Falls power. Circa 1915. #S &WB says it’s working. #Turbine5 , #GasPowered circa 1958 or almost 70 years old, is working

The skyrocketing costs of homeowners and flood insurance and the loss of Coastal Louisiana. Please make these your priorities.

🧵NOLA Lent Friday Fish Plate Map
I've finished the initial 2024 version of a map to show the location of places w/ Fish Dinners/Plates during Lent.
Most of the list is from the Archdiocese plus a few others. There's also a link to a form to add others.

google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

Why are catch basins under the Department of Public Works and not the Sewerage & Water Board? Excerpt from my book, 'Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City' (LSU Press ):

Bottle Cage Lagerstroemia Indica, several plant stems woven to make a vase. The plants are still alive in this shape

Meet Richard Campanella, the 'preternaturally curious' Tulane geographer who plumbs the city's endless mysteries and never comes away empty-handed: nola.com/news/meet-the-…

Hoping to go there tomorrow!

Two of New Orleans’ finest!

'We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.''