Chuck’s face became chapped. Absorbed by the hours spent at the helm of his aluminum boat winding through the arms of Pointe aux Chien Bay. Here, deep in southern Louisiana, two hours from New Orleans, the air is mild in late March in this region bordered by the Mississippi. Nothing like summer, when humidity and extreme temperatures put stress on the body. Chuck’s boat license shows his real name: Charles-Edmond Verdun. “Like the city of Verdun in France, but with I. »
The 66-year-old man in a faded red T-shirt took his surname from an ancestor from a small town on the Meuse who came to America in the 18th century. “They found me a shorter nickname,” he laughs. Without losing sight of the bay, Chuck talks about his village of 700 souls, devastated by Hurricane Ida in 2021, and its difficult reconstruction on this piece of land where the slightest rainfall can turn into a deluge. He unfolds the story in Molière’s language, rolling the “r” like Quebecois.
Source: Le Parisien
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