It is built on marshland and protected from the sea by resilient man-made dikes.
Beyond these patches are acres of open water that used to be storm-absorbing marshland.
For days, then weeks, there were long, parched fields and stretches of marshland clogged with the dead.
Mr Wood, who runs a pub in Marshland St James, Norfolk, was fined on Tuesday, police said.
It would be easy for a visitor to mistake some of the sugarcane crops in Jeanerette from marshland.
Several homes were lifted off their foundations and dumped, in pieces, into the marshland that surrounds the streets.
Volunteers are using canoes to search Kent marshland for a 54-year-old man who has been missing for two weeks.
During the storm, a tidal surge swept up the destroyed houses to Sabine Wildlife Refuge, a marshland used by local hunters and fishermen.
Many main roads are in ruins, bridges and dykes have collapsed and some of the country's most productive agricultural areas have become marshland.
About 300 years ago, the site was a salt marsh, but a bank was constructed in the 18th Century to create a grazing marshland.
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The "lie" Mr De Cloedt is referring to is the proposal to flood the Hedwige Polder to preserve it as a marshland for the birds.
Shia groups also have a toe-hold in the vast southern marshland.
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In the process it destroyed some 1m acres of coastal marshland around New Orleans something which suited property developers, but removed much of the city's natural protection against flooding.
But on that sunny January 30th four centuries ago, a fully laden 60 tonne ship in Appledore harbour, north Devon, was picked up and dumped in nearby marshland.
So I think we need to understand where it comes ashore in a marshland, there is a depth component to this and the effect could be far greater than that.
Working on a project known as CBESS funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, they have calculated that waves lose about half of their energy when they pass over just ten metres of marshland.
One was that its grandiose plans to set up a new studio on an expanse of marshland north of Los Angeles airport got into trouble, leaving DreamWorks embroiled in nasty rows with both environmentalists and developers, and with premises inefficiently scattered around the city.
Factor in concerns for the massive fishing industry and the environment, and the fact that the neighboring coast is populated and consists of stretches of marshland that will be difficult to clean (as opposed to the sparsely populated rocky coasts of Alaska) and the ramifications expand dramatically.
Sending her camera gliding languidly into the noonday shadows of a rotting shack, darting dangerously through heavy marshland foliage, or jaunting past city lights from the back of an open-air bus, Akerman embraces the rapturous but desperate beauty of the countryside and the chill of the metropolis.
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