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A 30-mile stretch of highway shows how insurance crisis ravaged a coastal Louisiana community

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Across 30 miles of highway in Terrebonne Parish, the insurance crisis is raging.

Some families are contemplating leaving because of high costs for home and flood insurance. Others already left. Businesses have closed and schools have been consolidated further north. 

The Times-Picayune spent months reporting on this stretch of highway, called Little Caillou Road, which turns into Houma’s main drag to the north and snakes south to Cocodrie, deep in the coast. 


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This map shows some of the damage the insurance crisis is causing in a place that is at the front lines. 

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