TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – The noise that shook Melvin Jennings awake felt like thunder. It was the middle of the night in April 2019, on a hushed, nearly 5-mile road that runs between St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes. The window panes in his bedroom were rattling, he said, as a procession of gravel trucks roared by one after the other, yards from his home as his wife Patricia, who suffers from dementia, was startled awake in her medical bed.