Sounds like something out of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel

So unreal, this story Amy linked to at Open Book about some of the southern-most parishes in Louisiana.

YSCLOSKEY, La. - (KRT) - This town is no more. Neither are Delacroix, or Reggio. Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, neither are most of the towns and fishing hamlets of rural St. Bernard Parish...

The devastation they found was total. Waves wiped entire towns from the map.