Hurricanes are taking away our coast. Every year hurricanes wipe out more and more and what are we doing about it? Losses are happening even faster. More than 8,700 acres have vanished since 1985. The wetlands losses are especially worrying in regions crucial to protecting New Orleans. This includes Barataria Basin and the lower Breton Sound Basin, or either side of the MIssissippi River. Making immediate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, with the aim of halting global warming, is essential to reduce the risk of the strongest storms in the future. Communities can bolster their resilience to the impacts of hurricanes by Preserving coastal wetlands, dunes, and reefs to absorb storm surge, Ensuring new building and development does not occur in flood-prone areas or historic hurricane tracks, Replenishing beaches and improving infrastructure that affords coastal protection, such as seawalls, and elevating vulnerable buildings to reduce the potential for flood damage. Something people have already started to help hurricane damage is the system of federal levees known as the Hurricane Damage Risk Reduction System. In doing all or a few of these things we can help our coast last and come back from the damage the hurricanes have caused.