Figure 1 Light on the Path III
The aircraft, Cessna 8189G, and pilot flew to and landed at New Orleans Lakefront airport (March 19, 2009 ).
Picture taken the next day from 1800’ flying from Slidell, LA to Bay St. Louis, MS, March 20,2009.






Figure 2 Further along the route (same altitude, latitude 30 deg. 10 min, longitude 90 degrees 10 minutes)… entrance to the intercoastal waterway . These coastal wetlands (along with the barrier islands to the south) provide protection for the City of New Orleans from hurricane waters that would otherwise raise the level of Lake Pontchartrain to much.







Figure 3 same as above, a little further along







Figure 4 Flying further east along, above the LA, MS intercoastal waterway, the route mentioned above.











Figure 5 Hwy 90 Bridge from where the Pearl River empties into the northeast entrance to Lake Pontchartrain (altitude about 1800’). This is one possible site for a new hurricane protection structure that would work similar to that in the low-lying easily flooded areas of Belgium.





Figure 6 Photo taken from above the city of Bay St. Louis, MS. From about 1800’, March 20, 2009. Many new homes have been built there since Hurricane Katrina. But, there was a narrow miss from flooding from another hurricane last August. The sea wall that protects the city from the East is not very high above normal sea level and new laws have required new construction to be based on using concrete pillars to elevate the home to the required heights (much the same as homes in the Florida Keys were required to do this many years ago).










Figure 7 Picture taken flying over Pass Christian, MS from about 3500’ (which is on the other side of the by from Bay St. Louis) January 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina. It is hard to see at this resolution but, because of wind damage, most of the homes had blue tarp roots covering over them then.