Read this article about the Cajun Navy. ing awesome.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index....n_houston.html
People formed group after flooding and hurricanes in Louisiana, with hunters and fishermen with flat bottom boats and so forth.
BAM.
https://www.facebook.com/LaCajunNavy/
Portal for donations.
http://www.louisianacajunnavy.org/
(repost from another thread, seemed like it should have its own thread)
"I can't look at somebody knowing that I have a perfect boat in my driveway to be doing this and to just sit at home," said Jordy Bloodsworth, a Baton Rouge member of the Cajun Navy who flooded after Hurricane Katrina when he lived in Chalmette. "I have every resource within 100 feet of me to help.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...rricane-harvey, some government officials in Texas were encouraging it. The police department in League City, just south of Houston, put out a call for private citizens with flat-bottom or shallow-water boats to lend a hand. The department was quickly overwhelmed with offers of help.
“We literally have hundreds of names and numbers and not enough manpower to go around,” the department posted, on Facebook. “If we do not contact you please do not think that we do not appreciate your offer. We are simply overwhelmed with the number of offers for help.”
Offers of assistance poured in from as far away as Philadelphia, but Louisianans, in particular, vowed to help. Bridgers, the Cajun Navy 2016 organizer, and other Baton Rouge-area residents said they remembered how the Texas National Guard mobilized during Katrina, and recalled the donations sent by Texans after last year’s flood. “It’s more of a reciprocal gift of love back to them for what they did for us last year, plus we know they need it,” a Baton Rouge woman who was organizing a supply drive to a Houston church told the city newspaper, the Advocate. “How many times has Louisiana been in the crossfire, and how many times have people from other places helped us?”
The Cajun Navy might need a submarine division pretty soon
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