The End of the World: Louisiana is Disappearing

Cordellville, Louisiana lies at the exact point Hurricane Katrina made landfall. It’s now my favorite vacation spot in the world.

Cordellville’s only buildings are a small ring of FEMA trailers connected by Chuck Bulot’s patio. He built the patio with the few bricks Katrina left of the house he was born in. It’s just two hours below my hometown of New Orleans. And life here is good.

Cordellville, La.

“I broke two ribs in the storm, but I been laughing so hard this last year they can’t heal,” he says, before sending me into his FEMA trailer to find some cayenne pepper. Spices are all that line his shelves and drawers and all the other spaces where the clutter of his life might have once been... more