Climate Adaptation
‘Nothing Left’: How Back-to-Back Hurricanes Gutted a U.S. Town
Louisiana hamlet Cameron battered by Laura and then Delta
Back-to-back storms have swallowed up the marshy coast near Cameron, Louisiana.
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On the day after Hurricane Delta cut its ruinous path across southern Louisiana, Dick Frerks pointed to a lone 20-foot pylon rising from the bayou and summed up what he’d lost.
“Our house used to be on top of that,” said Frerks, who makes his living hauling shrimp and crab from the Gulf of Mexico and lives outside the town of Cameron.