Like everything else in southern Louisiana, the protective barrier islands are sinking.
The threat of the developing disturbance prompted officials to close a state park in southern Louisiana.
More than 400,000 houses lost power, leaving a huge swath of southern Louisiana without working traffic lights.
Congress has told the corps to study ways to improve protection for southern Louisiana.
The French language can also still be heard in some parts of southern Louisiana.
The history of this process can be read in the map of southern Louisiana.
The film is based on a novel and set in 1950's segregationalist southern Louisiana.
More important, the administration sees what sort of basic commitments are needed if southern Louisiana is going to have the chance to rebuild itself.
The deficit is largely the result of the evacuation from southern Louisiana.
Most of them found a haven in southern Louisiana, fishing and trapping for a living.