A vast inland bay, the forbidding White Sea takes its name from constant fog, snowbound shores, and from September to May, a surface composed entirely of ice.
When Hurricane Ida made landfall in southern Louisiana on Sunday and then moved inland, it ripped roofs off homes and buildings, flooded houses and roads, flattened trees, and knocked power lines all over the place.
The income generated is unevenly divided: between profits and wages, rich households and poor, coastal provinces and inland regions, the cities and the countryside.
The cyclone winds were bad enough but the flooding is much worse say aid officials creating what they're calling an inland ocean and the threat will increase as more rains set in.
It caused a tsunami with 30 foot waves that swept inland leading to the deaths of roughly 20,000 people and cutting off electricity to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
The rich coastal region cities of Beijing and Shanghai have a far higher nominal per capita income - sometimes more than double or quadruple that of those living inland.
We call that road Elevation Drive because it showcased the elevation of a neighborhood, rising as you drove inland and then dropping after you crossed that barely noticeable ridge.