Lake Pontchartrain
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Sep 13, 2026
Mike AndersonHOST
It makes
Ben MarshallHOST
Pontchartrain really fun, too.
Ben MarshallHOST
That was
Mike AndersonHOST
actually the beauty.
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And then
Andrew LuciusGUEST
it weakened rapidly after landfall, and by the time it reached Lake Pontchartrain, it was a tropical storm that's Louisiana, then a weekend to tropical depression status as it traveled north through Mississippi.
Andrew LuciusGUEST
And the storm caused about 360,000 customer power outages in Louisiana.
Andrew LuciusGUEST
Some peak wind gusts reported were
Andrew LuciusGUEST
Over to the west, about 3 to 5 feet.
Andrew LuciusGUEST
Then over to the east, around Bataria Bay, 4 to 7 feet.
Andrew LuciusGUEST
And then Lake Pontchartrain and the east coast of Louisiana, storm surge forecast around 2 to 4 feet.
Andrew LuciusGUEST
Then we'll move on to Tuesday, September 10th.
Jen MorganGUEST
And I feel like now, so I just came into this medium right after the pandemic.
Jen MorganGUEST
A friend of mine here, and I live in Mandeville, Louisiana, which is just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans now.
Jen MorganGUEST
We've lived here for about eight years.
Jen MorganGUEST
And a friend here on the North Shore, I think she had been taking some online courses or kind of got into wet felting during the pandemic.
Danielle BlinkaHOST
I think most of us who live in the U.S. at least know where New Orleans is.
Danielle BlinkaHOST
It is on the Mississippi River as well as Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Bornea.
Danielle BlinkaHOST
And then those lakes basically feed into the Gulf.
Danielle BlinkaHOST
It is a large city with over 380,000 residents, and the entire metropolitan area has over 1 million residents.
John Dean DavisGUEST
And so I got in my car and I drove from Boston to New Orleans.
John Dean DavisGUEST
And I went through the Tennessee Valley and looked at all the TVA projects and then drove across whatever the causeway is at Lake Pontchartrain, spent time in New Orleans.
John Dean DavisGUEST
Loved it.
John Dean DavisGUEST
Thought it was amazing.
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Marie Laveau, the legendary voodoo queen of New Orleans who dominated the city's spiritual life in the 19th century, kept a great snake named Zombie as her primary spiritual instrument.
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She held ceremonies on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.
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She is said to have had an uncanny ability to know things she should not have known.
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She was, by every account, profoundly beautiful and profoundly powerful and not entirely safe to cross.
Andre SavoieHOST
We're going to talk about some late summer fishing.
Andre SavoieHOST
First, we're going to start off in the Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans area, and talk to Captain Danny Hunter of New Orleans Best Charters.
Andre SavoieHOST
And we're going to talk about triple tail fishing.
Andre SavoieHOST
Danny is going to talk about, you know, what is quickly becoming a popular... addition to just about any inshore trip around the uh lake pontchartrain area and they're catching some really nice triple tails some big ones and they're having a lot of fun like having a bonus to almost any trip and then they're also catching a lot of trout so danny's going to tell us about the late summer patterns how the fishing's been we're going to get into a couple reports Then we're going to head to the middle part of the state and we're going to talk to Captain Jerry Cottrell, who is a kayak fishing specialist.
Andre SavoieHOST
And Jerry runs several organizations related to kayak fishing.
Andre SavoieHOST
But the fun story we're going to get into, Jerry, is talking about his participation in the star tournament and how a kayak fisherman is in second place for trout going into the last day or so of the tournament.
12 MINS LATER
Danny HunterGUEST
It's only going to get better and better with this.
Danny HunterGUEST
Like I said, the water right now is really, really salty.
Dan BlatherHOST
However, the Drainage Canal Gator doesn't just live in the canals of New Orleans.
Dan BlatherHOST
They can also be found on Lake Pontchartrain, Byer St. John, and just about any catch basin that a small child could fall into.
Dan BlatherHOST
They love to eat
speaker_12UNKNOWN
small children, but also other adult human appendages of any sort.
37 MINS LATER
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Sup bros! Welcome back! It's your boy Trent here and today we're at the edge of the Bon Carre spillway just outside of Laplace and St.
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Charles Parish.
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Completed in 1931, this massive man-made wave pool was constructed to help alleviate flood waters from the Mississippi River by allowing them to flow into Lake Pontchartrain and thence into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Currently, I'm at the foot of the dam-like control structure on the east bank of the mighty Mississippi.
Brien LundinGUEST
And eventually the unthinkable or the sometimes in the future becomes unthinkable.
Brien LundinGUEST
A little over 20 years ago, I used to jog just about every morning down to the Lake Pontchartrain where I lived.
Brien LundinGUEST
I lived down here around New Orleans.
Brien LundinGUEST
I would jog along the levee there by Lake Pontchartrain.
Brien LundinGUEST
One year, early in the summer, they went and dumped a bunch of dirt on top of it.
Brien LundinGUEST
Just didn't try and build up the levee, just added a foot and a half of dirt on the top of it.
Chris ElliottGUEST
The real story is the art of the possible, and this is where I will give Albot some credit.
Chris ElliottGUEST
Would everybody like a new, elevated, wide, Lake Pontchartrain-looking crossing? Yes.
Chris ElliottGUEST
We can't afford that.
Chris ElliottGUEST
period, full stop.
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