Kernel | Port Paradox

On August 28, 2021, Chett Chiasson looked out from his office in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Since 2010, he has occupied that...

Kernel | Port Paradox Issue 3 nonfiction Port Paradox written by Anson Yu edited by Hal Triedman On August 28, 2021, Chett Chiasson looked out from his office in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Since 2010, he has occupied that office as the port's Executive Director, with a mandate to make it run like clockwork. A day later, they watched Hurricane Ida tear the roof off a port building over a security camera live feed. Before Ida’s category 5 winds were other storms: Gustav, Ike, Katrina, Rita, Andrew, Carmen, Josephine. There’s an inexorable march of coastal land loss — the waves and the wind take b

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