Stacey Plaisance, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

The capsized lift boat Seacor Power and two rescue boats, bottom left, are seen seven miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, April 18, 2021. The vessel capsized during a storm on Tuesday. Port Fourchon and Bayou Lafourche, where the ship left port, are seen above. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Coast Guard suspending search for missing crew

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Kevin McGill Associated PressApril 19, 2021

CUT OFF, La. — The U.S. Coast Guard said it will suspend the search for crew members who disappeared when a lift boat capsized off Louisiana last week at sunset Monday, and authorities do not expect to find more survivors from the vessel.The grim news…

Darra Ann Morales, right, shows a photo of her son Chaz Morales and his family on her phone, as Chaz Jr., 10, comforts his grandmother at their home in Slidell, La., Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Darra Ann Morales is the mother and Chaz Jr. is the son of Chaz Morales, who is one of the crew members missing from the capsized vessel Seacor Power that departed from Port Fourchon when severe weather struck Tuesday. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

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Weather hinders search for survivors of La. shipwreck

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, Kevin McGill Associated Press, and Jeff Martin Associated PressApril 15, 2021

Jane McDow walks with her dog 'Duke' along the Lake Pontchartrain seawall in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Hurricane Zeta is expected to make landfall this afternoon as a category 2 storm. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Hurricane slams La.

by Kevin McGill Associated Press, Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Rebecca Santana Associated PressOctober 28, 2020

Soncia King holds onto her husband Patrick King in Lake Charles, La., Saturday as they walk through the flooded street to their home, after Hurricane Delta moved through on Friday.

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‘We can’t lose our momentum:’ Louisiana vows to rebuild

by Rebecca Santana Associated Press, Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, Staff Report Associated Press, and Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressOctober 11, 2020

Kim Miller and Monty Graham open their truck bed and began loading up sandbags along U.S. 90 in preparation for Tropical Storm Sally, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020 in Gulfport, Miss. (Alyssa Newton/The Sun Herald via AP)

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Sally threatens to drench Gulf Coast

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Janety McConnaughey Associated PressSeptember 14, 2020

This March 26 image from video shows a message written in chalk that says, “If you’re leaving, thank you, rest well,” on a sidewalk at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.

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Sidewalk notes bring smiles to hospital staff

by Stacey Plaisance Associated PressApril 5, 2020

Cathie Morris, right, tells Red Cross volunteer Laurie Howell on Tuesday that her sister was killed by one of the April 2011 tornadoes, not far from what they're standing, in front of Morris' house, damaged by the Monday, December 16, 2019 storms off Neely Hill Loop in Limestone County, Ala. (Jeronimo Nisa/The Decatur Daily via AP)

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Four dead, several injured across South in twister outbreak

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Jay Reeves Associated PressDecember 17, 2019

In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, artist Aaron Angelo takes a sledgehammer to the leg of a baby grand piano in a house where two rooms are being transformed to look as they might have looked once floodwaters receded following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The house sits in front of one of the flood walls that failed when Katrina hit nearly 14 years ago. The nonprofit group Levees.org bought the house and is transforming it as part of its effort to educate the public on the causes of the 2005 flood. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

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Sorrow revisited: Re-creating Katrina’s muck in New Orleans

by Kevin McGill Associated Press, and Stacey Plaisance Associated PressMarch 21, 2019

From left, Laura Cunningham, 10, Hunter Shows and Brandon Perry, 10, watch the waves crash from Tropical Storm Gordon Tuesday on Dauphin Island, Ala.

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Tropical Storm Gordon slams Gulf Coast

by Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, and Kevin McGill Associated PressSeptember 5, 2018

This Aug. 1, 2017 photo shows Llewellyn Everage, who directs interns and volunteers at the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, gesturing towards an area of the nature center that had been cleared of tallow using heavy machinery, with tallows yet to be cleared in the background, at the center in New Orleans. The tallow is a highly invasive tree rapidly overtaking forests from Texas to Florida. The 86-acre site, with walking trails and boardwalks winding through a swampy forest, flooded in 2005 and became overrun with Chinese tallow in the years that followed. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance)

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’Super invader’ tree hits South, but flea beetle may be hero

by Stacey Plaisance Associated PressNovember 15, 2017