Book tv. Each week, American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help provide context to todays Public Affairs issues. 50 years ago on september 9th, 1965, hurricane betsy made landfall at grand isle, louisiana, near new orleans. It was a category 4 storm with winds up to 155 Miles Per Hour. A hurricane called betsy is a 30minute Defense Department film documenting billiondollar betsy, the first storm in u. S. History to cause over 1 billion in damage. A storm surge of over ten feet led to breached levees, the flooding of 164,000 homes, and 76 deaths. Similar to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many residents had to wait for rescue on rooftops and relief shelters were overwhelmed. Four, three, two, one, ignition liftoff. On our way. Say again, jimboy 5 . Stage 2. The air was fair at cape kennedy. Lacy clouds and a warm august 5. Gemini v took off for space when there was no weather at all. The only problem, a leaky fuel cell threatened to cut their short flight at the sta
Came here to escape settlers 300 years ago, building homes in the marshland. Our people always had our villages along bayou waterways because it just provided so much for us. But today an ecological disaster is unfolding, threatening the tribes traditions and most of all, its land. An area of land the size of manhattan is subtracted from south louisiana every 10 months it turns to water. A football field every 30 minutes, an area the size of delaware the whole state of delaware since the 1930s. Its just astonishing how much land is being disappeared. Fault lines is here to find out why southern louisiana is now one of the fastest disappearing landmasses on the planet. And to ask whos responsible for the crisis. Yeah this place used to be really pretty at one time. And not that long ago really. I think in another 10 years, this will all be water. Definitely the trees aint coming back. Over the past hundred years nearly two thousand square miles of land have been wiped from the map of lo
Raymond clarks ancestors came here to escape settlers 300 years ago, building homes in the marshland. Our people always had our villages along bayou waterways because it just provided so much for us. But today an ecological disaster is unfolding, threatening the tribes traditions and most of all, its land. An area of land the size of manhattan is subtracted from south louisiana every 10 months it turns to water. A football field every 30 minutes, an area the size of delaware the whole state of delaware since the 1930s. Its just astonishing how much land is being disappeared. Fault lines is here to find out why southern louisiana is now one of the fastest disappearing landmasses on the planet. And to ask whos responsible for the crisis. Yeah this place used to be really pretty at one time. And not that long ago really. I think in another 10 years, this will all be water. Definitely the trees aint coming back. Over the past hundred years nearly two thousand square miles of land have been
Raymond clarks ancestors came here to escape settlers 300 years ago, building homes in the marshland. Our people always had our villages along bayou waterways because it just provided so much for us. But today an ecological disaster is unfolding, threatening the tribes traditions and most of all, its land. An area of land the size of manhattan is subtracted from south louisiana every 10 months it turns to water. A football field every 30 minutes, an area the size of delaware the whole state of delaware since the 1930s. Its just astonishing how much land is being disappeared. Fault lines is here to find out why southern louisiana is now one of the fastest disappearing landmasses on the planet. And to ask whos responsible for the crisis. Yeah this place used to be really pretty at one time. And not that long ago really. I think in another 10 years, this will all be water. Definitely the trees aint coming back. Over the past hundred years nearly two thousand square miles of land have been
Everythings there. Raymond clarks ancestors came here to escape settlers 300 years ago, building homes in the marshland. Our people always had our villages along bayou waterways because it just provided so much for us. But today an ecological disaster is unfolding, threatening the tribes traditions and most of all, its land. An area of land the size of manhattan is subtracted from south louisiana every 10 months it turns to water. A football field every 30 minutes, an area the size of delaware the whole state of delaware since the 1930s. Its just astonishing how much land is being disappeared. Fault lines is here to find out why southern louisiana is now one of the fastest disappearing landmasses on the planet. And to ask whos responsible for the crisis. Yeah this place used to be really pretty at one time. And not that long ago really. I think in another 10 years, this will all be water. Definitely the trees aint coming back. Over the past hundred years nearly two thousand square mile