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"We are working together with the parish council and taking expert advice from the diocese as to the best way forward," he said.

In a rural Louisiana parish that is home to some 20,000 inhabitants, an army of bulldozers and excavators has been busy clearing a vast patch of farmland, the next frontier of the artificial-intelligence revolution.

In Jamaica, devastation was rampant in western parishes including Westmoreland and Saint Elizabeth.

The eye of the storm hit somewhere between the two neighbouring parishes.

Mr Walker is stuck in Black River, sleeping in whoever's house is still standing that will accept him, he says, while his eight-year-old son is in Westmoreland, the next parish over.