DOWN THE DELTA, most houses in Grand Bayou Village are raised 14 feet off the ground; in 2021, Ida flooded the wetlands with about 10 feet of storm surge, but the wind caused the most damage.

GRAND BAYOU, La. (WVUE) - For centuries, the people of Grand Bayou—a remote, boat-accessible village west of the Mississippi River—have called the disappearing coastline of Plaquemines Parish ...

Decades of coastal erosion and land loss have dramatically altered the landscape around Grand Bayou Louisiana. The state's coast has lost thousands of square miles of land over the last 100 years.

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. (WVUE) - Rosina Philippe has witnessed a lifetime of change in the wetlands that once surrounded her home in Grand Bayou, the small Native American community on the ...

Maurice Phillippe, Louisiana’s Grand Bayou Indian Village: I've been having boats all my life, and this is supposed to be my last one, hopefully. Seeing it the way it is right now is heartbreaking.

Grand Bayou’s state of despair resembles that of the Lower 9th Ward, 40 miles away in New Orleans. Both are lifeless. Both are poor. Both were colorful enclaves of traditional Louisiana culture. They ...

Photo provided by WGBH -- The Bayou Corne sinkhole, seen here in October 2012, will be one of the suibjects of PBS' NOVA installment,, 'Sinkholes-Buried Alive.' ...

GRAND BAYOU, La. (WVUE) - For centuries, the people of Grand Bayou—a remote, boat-accessible village west of the Mississippi River—have called the disappearing coastline of Plaquemines Parish ...