‘Cajun Navy’ Brings Its Rescue Fleet to Houston’s Flood Zone
30, 2017
Calling themselves the Cajun Navy, volunteers with bass boats, airboats
and other small recreational vessels set off in a caravan from Baton Rouge, La., on Monday, bound for flood-devastated Houston.
With little formal organization, the Cajun Navy has come to the rescue in previous disasters, supporting emergency workers during Hurricane Katrina in 2005
and through catastrophic floods in south-central Louisiana last year.
The best way you can thank somebody for helping you is to go help somebody else." Mr. Theriot
and a friend, Clyde Morales, piloted a 20-foot aluminum skiff in driving rain.
Ben Theriot said that We’re trying to do what we can,
On Tuesday, one group launched its vessels in Humble, Tex., about 20 miles north of
downtown Houston by interstate — or as was the case this week, by uncharted river.
After plucking stranded residents from an apartment complex, the men, tired and soaking wet, hauled their boat to dry land and hit the road again.
