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    A Refrain As Louisiana's Coast Washes Away: We're 'Water People. We Can't Leave'

    Locals put the crisis into a perspective that’s easy to understand: Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour of the day.
    May 31, 2017 3 minutes
    The entrance to The Pen, a lake off the Barataria Waterway that used to be a farm. “It was a big field," says Kevin Rutley, whose family has lived in the area for generations. (Virginia Hanusik for Here & Now)

    Locals put the crisis into a perspective that’s easy to understand.

    Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour of the day.

    “Even my customers are starting to recognize it now,” says charter boat captain Ripp Blank. “And it don’t come back once it leaves.”

    Blank has been fishing the waters around Bayou Barataria — 30 miles or so north of the Gulf of Mexico — his entire life. If you’re a newcomer, it can be hard to discern where the water ends and the land begins.

    “It washes through little cuts and then before you know

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