Houma is stitched together by bridges — the bayou runs right through the middle of town and traffic waits while the span swings open for a boat. B. Landry's Tree Service works the streets on both banks, under oaks whose limbs stretch longer than the yards they shade. Tree trimming and pruning take the weight and the sail out of those limbs before the season turns; tree removal is for the water oak gone punky at the base or the pine leaning toward the house. Terrebonne Parish knows exactly what a bad autumn can do, and storm damage cleanup here gets measured in driveways opened and roofs cleared, one address at a time. When it is done, light comes back under the canopy and the street looks like itself again.