A bayou is marsh wetland, usually slow moving or still water.
Our friends are down there at their second home and want to head back to California....but they're leary, and don't know what's going on given they have no power, and very little communication ability?
When they get a cell signal, they call us out here to see what's happening down there!
“A bayou is marsh wetland, usually slow moving or still water.”
... which upon seeing, someone will build a city on. We can’t help it...