Nic Hunter and Adrian Perkins
Special to The Times
Louisianans are accustomed to long, hot summers and brief, mild winters, but in February of this year, Shreveport s nearly 200,000 residents suffered through a once-in-a-century deep freeze that burst water mains throughout the city and left residents without running water for more than a week. Families had to boil water in crawfish pots to flush toilets and collect boxed drinking water at National Guard distribution points.
City of Shreveport employees worked around the clock to restore service, and citizen soldiers heroically pitched in to help neighbors.
Shreveport was not the only city battling with similar issues related to the winter storm. The City of Lake Charles was also impacted. One would be hard-pressed to identify another city in the United States that has endured more than the City of Lake Charles over the course of 12 months.
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State officials tour ongoing restoration project on Terrebonne barrier islands
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On Monday, Gov. Edwards and other state and local officials toured ongoing construction activities on Trinity-East Island in the Terrebonne Basin.
The island is one of three three barrier islands being restored.
According to a release, the Terrebonne Basin Barrier Island and Beach Nourishment project is using $167 million in funds from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to restore Trinity-East Island, West Belle Headland, and Timbalier Island.
Trinity-East Island is part of the Isle Dernières Wildlife Refuge, a once-popular resort island on Louisianaâs Southeast coast. In 1856, Isle Dernière was destroyed by the Last Island Hurricane, causing it to eventually split into five individual islands.