Jean Lafitte Is ‘Basically in the Gulf of Mexico’
Jean Lafitte sits on the other side of the canal from Barataria, and damage there has been equally catastrophic. This image shows Tom’s Marine and Salvage, a business in the town, overcome by water. The various pieces of industrial machinery strewn in the waters point to the toxic legacy Ida could leave behind for months or years to come.
The sheriff of Jean Lafitte, Marcel Rodriguez, told WWNO that Ida’s surge left 400 people in the area who didn’t evacuate trapped and said “they’re basically there in the Gulf of Mexico in a hurricane.”
