A man named Sam Sung worked for Apple until 2013. He is auctioning his Apple business card for charity on eBay http://news.yahoo.com/most-hilariously-named-ex-apple-employee-auctioning-off-153032526.html
The statue of Evangeline in the church cemetery in St. Martinville was donated by the actress Delores Del Rio and is a likeness of her.
The Mississippi River once flowed to the Gulf down what is now the Atchafalaya River. It changed course sometime around the time of Christ. Without the Corps of Engineers efforts it would probably go back to its old bed. So long Morgan City.
Not exactly. The Mississippi River never flowed down the Atchafalaya River channel. The Mississippi has changed course many times and it once flowed in roughly the same position as the Atchafalaya, but it was long, long ago and those deposits are buried very deeply. The last major course of the Mississippi was down what is now Bayou Teche and it built up a large natural levee ridge there. It switched to its modern course about 2,000 years ago and has built up a major natural levee system there. The Atchafalaya is a relatively modern stream that developed in the basin to drain the low area between these who river levee systems. It was much smaller until it extended itself headward and captured the Red River which formerly flowed into the Mississippi. Now it is undercutting and capturing the Mississippi River. When that happens, and it WILL happen, the Mississippi will flow down the Atchafalaya course and build a new delta in in Atchafalaya Bay. With that amount of water coming down the River will begin actively meandering again and will probably break through the Teche ridge at the Wax Lake Outlet and spare Morgan City. Bad news for some small towns near Wax lake, though.
You're probably right, but the switch from the Atchafalaya to Wax Lake would be gradual. It would be an interesting battle for awhile between the river and Morgan City's 20-foot seawall. River seen from atop the wall: Open floodgate, seen from the river side:
Alligators can eat a quarter of their body weight in one meal. That's the equivalent of an average man eating 400 chicken wings in one meal
I don't mean to suggest that Morgan City would not be threatened at all, just that the Mississippi will not automatically follow the current course of the Atchafalaya. The river will become 3 to 4 times as big instantly during the capture and Wax Lake is the shortest course to the Gulf. There is a shitload of water running through the Outlet already and the river will take that course quickly. Of course there will still be a lot of water going through the old Atchafalaya course until it silts up.
