Kicking Them When They Are Down

Talk about kicking someone when they are down. Southern Louisiana is in what is being called a severe to extreme drought. So last summer it's one of the worst natural disasters in American History, and now the opposite end of spectrum.

(AP/Yahoo) State climatologist Jay Grymes said he believes the entire region may already be, or soon will be, under extreme conditions if there is no heavy rain.

The culprit is La Nina, an area of cool water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that has pushed the jet stream and the typical west-to-east storm pattern north of southern Louisiana. It has also disrupted normal storm formation in the Gulf of Mexico.

On a positive note, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is trying to repair levees before the start of Hurricane season and they are able to get more accomplished with no rain.

"Weatherwise, we've done really well," said Corps spokeswoman Kim Gillespie.