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