Thibodaux, Louisiana
Thibodaux, Louisiana
Thibodaux, Louisiana
Millenial
I remember thinking back to my elementary school years, we would write letters every year to our senators fighting to keep coastal erosion awareness going. As of late, I have three children of my own now, and there are times where I’ve gone down to Point-Aux-Chenes, and now it’s astounding just seeing the amount of land that’s eroded away and it looks completely different from when I was younger. So now even being able to bring my children to those places is getting harder and harder.
I think one of the things that I’ve done is trying to keep the story going and the awareness there with our kids. Continuing to tell them stories of how things were when we were younger and things that we got to experience just to bring in awareness to younger generations. I feel like there was such a large push for such a long time and seemingly not a whole lot has been done. I think it’s just one of those things where because not a whole lot has been done you just kind of forget about it or you lose heart behind it. So I think of people coming up with creative ways of rebuilding land mass, I know there have been projects where people would dump Christmas trees and just any kind of way to help with that. I think the biggest thing is continuing the story so people are aware of it.