While students in eastern Ascension Parish will return to school on Tuesday, the district is unsure when schools in the Donaldsonville area can resume, said district spokesman Johnnie Balfantz today.

As residents forced to evacuate from the Gulf Coast make their way back home, many of them will quite literally be left in the dark.

At this time there are only meals ready to eat and some tarps available at the Lamar Dixon Expo emergency supply distribution center.