Contractors load containment boom aboard a workboat at Branch Terrebonne Parish, La., on the morning of Thursday, July 1, 2010. After two days of limited boat operations due to severe weather and flooding and a day after oil entered Terrebonne Parish, this and other boats are preparing to recover oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill and to protect the coastal marshland from further contamination. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class John D. Miller.