Grand Isle News

Ida v. Katrina in New Orleans: Fewer People, Better Levees, Smaller Storm Surge

Hurricane Ida and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 made landfall within 50 miles of one other and each carried 150 mph winds at one point, but the amount of death and destruction caused by the two storms was vastly different because …

Louisiana Island’s Levee Still Waiting for Repairs

Three months after Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana’s Grand Isle is still waiting for repairs to the island’s levee system. But Grand Isle Mayor David Carmadelle tells The Courier he’s been told by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the repairs …