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moving sand around, or the death of holly beach 2010-06-29 - 10:13 a.m. I didn't expect to be posting an entry called, "The Death of Holly Beach," any time soon. After all, Holly Beach is in western Louisiana -- a long distance away from the spill. But the grab for money and attention continues and for some random reason, they have decided to dig up sand that was placed to restore Holly Beach after Katrina/Rita and then Ike -- and then to build a huge barrier wall between the beach and the marsh. Of course, they did this just as the birds are finishing up the nesting season. The birders found out this weekend, when they stumbled upon the beach, to find the destruction a done deal. I think it's all well and good to pretend to believe that the politicians in question are well-intentioned, but c'mon, make it a little believable. Apparently, Bobby Jindal got caught having 5,000 National Guard troops that he called out to work the oil spill not reallly working but more or less just standing around and twiddling their thumbs, presumably because no one died and made a National Guard trooper an experienced offshore petroleum worker and hence there was limited unskilled work for them to do. So there was the usual hue and cry about all these idle troops, and then somehow some of them were given the relatively unskilled job of, essentially, destroying Holly Beach, during the nesting season, just to say that they were doing something. As an extra side bonus, if a hurricane hits the area and breaches the wall (which it will breach the wall, based on eye-witness descriptions of it), then you've got another "bowl" situation where the water from a storm surged is trapped in Cameron and other towns for a long time before they can be drained again. A boondoggle all around... Let me say it again: I don't object to spending BP's money, but let the money be spent on projects that help people, beaches, and birds, not on projects that harm them. I'd rather see some of the excess National Guards back on the crime-fighting scene, in New Orleans or wherever, rather than tearing up good beach just to pretend they're doing something. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford