Teenagers shoot hoops in the midsummer fog of Daly City, Calif. on Tuesday July 26, 2011. 

Chris Escamilla clears sugar cane from processing machinery at the Raceland Raw Sugar Mill on Wednesday, in Raceland on November 30, 2011.

Lauro Sanchez of Larose welds chain at Bollinger Shipyards on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at Port Fourchon.

Curtis Gaudet of Houma receives blessings from Allen Coulonge and Pastor Mike Kenney during an Easter Sunday Mass at the Apostolic Revival Church on April 8, 2012 in Houma.

A soldier from the XVIII Airbourne Corps. hugs his family before his departure for Iraq, to take part in “Operation New Dawn” on Saturday, January 15, 2011 from Green Ramp at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina.

Mitchell Samaha, a Biologist and Educator with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, goes hunting with his children, Cameron, 11, and Maggie, 9, at a duck pond on Saturday, November 19 in Dulac.

Fog settles on the asphalt early in the morning on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus.

Sierra Arceneaux, 11, of Bourg, lets a ladybug crawl across her face during the 13th annual Ladybug Ball at the Southdown Plantation on Saturday, April 21, 2012 in Houma.

Gary Matherne of Houma laughs during a game Pedro at Shady Acres Senior Center on Wednesday in Houma.

Nine-year-old Ashlyn Burton feels the icy snowball on her face thrown by her stepbrother, nine-year old Jackson Snell in Fayetteville on Monday, December 27. Sunday's day-after-Christmas snowfall in Cumberland County ranged from 9 inches in Eastover to 7 inches in Fayetteville, according to the National Weather Service.

Nathan and Paula Thibodeaux haul their shrimp catch off their boat on Wednesday in Cocodrie.

Father Justino "Loloy" Estoque blesses with holy water those participating in the boat blessing from the deck of the Master Christopher shrimping boat on Sunday April 22, 2012 in Dulac.

Joi Ong climbs the steps of Poverty Point Monument in Louisiana on November 13, 2011.

Macy Dardar, 3, swings with her mother, Gabrielle Lerille, who holds her sister, Elizabeth Lerille, 1, at the Cut Off Youth Center on April 14, 2012 in Cut Off.

Limbs of an oak tree stretch from behind a statue of Jesus at the Pointe-aux-Chenes Marina on Monday evening in Point-aux-Chenes. "I put the statue there about 8 years ago," says marina owner Barry Fanguy. "When people go out fishing, they have a reminder of the Good Lord and it hopefully brightens their day," said Fanguy. While the oak trees and statue are both icons of the area's southernmost point, they are located beyond current plans of Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project, and will likely be flooded in years to come.

An overhead view of the wetlands of Southwest Terrebonne Parish. Every year, wetlands area greater than the size of Manhattan disappears into the water due to coastal erosion, a natural process accelerated by human actions.

American Uncertainty, (Illustration), Daly City, Calif.