Snow piles up on the limbs of oak trees in Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) The southern live oak is one of the most wind ...

"The trees still weren't recovered from the drought in 2022 and 2023 with that period of rain and another drought, and then we went into this winter with no snow, but quite cold temperatures ...