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Cajun Navy arrives in Houston to help rescue flood victims; another wave heads out
wafb.com ^ | 8/28/2017 | Elizabeth Vowell

Posted on 08/28/2017 8:34:02 AM PDT by rktman

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -

One year after the Cajun Navy fleet deployed to pluck stranded families from the flood waters that overwhelmed southeast Louisiana, the volunteer rescuers have mobilized again to help in the Houston area after heavy flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey.

A second wave of volunteers with the group gathered in Baton Rouge on Monday to head to the Houston area to provide additional support.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cajun; cajunnavy; harvey; houston; hurracane; srcajuns
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To: TigerClaws

Wow, that’s truly inspiring.


21 posted on 08/28/2017 9:13:47 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: Mercat

Drowned gators is a sad thing

But good for handbags


22 posted on 08/28/2017 9:14:17 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: DesertRhino; Pelham

This article is about Louisana helping Texas

It’s not about GOP versus democrat

A facile argument that meant zip till 1980 or so

Before that both states had been democrat since reconstruction and for damn good reason in 1870

This notion that the GOP means anything anymore should be obvious right about now that it’s poppycock

The only decent folks around tend to be GOP

But the GOP are treacherous to their base unlike the Dems

Louisana is three times as black as Texas which means it’ll always have a butt load of lefties

Whites in both states baring the idiosyncratic coonasses are pretty close culturally

Coonasses in Texas btw


23 posted on 08/28/2017 9:21:20 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: rktman

I see no helpin’ from the likes of Mutt Romney, McCain, Flake, Rubio, Corker or Cruz and the #nevertrumpers to lift a finger in a national crisis.

Perhaps Mutt could put a few dogs on top his car and donate a few trucks of supplies.


24 posted on 08/28/2017 9:23:41 AM PDT by dforest
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To: rktman

Thanks, I did not detect whether you were being sarcastic or not. I lived there for 18 years and still miss certain things (tho definitely not the Hurricane related issues)...


25 posted on 08/28/2017 9:28:43 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: Roccus
Sean Penn show up yet?

No, and I really hope he does NOT show up. Just the reaction from the white people from Texas and Louisiana would make him leave in short order.

26 posted on 08/28/2017 9:31:57 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's EconOomic Cure)
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To: rktman

We lost our home and all of our possessions in Katrina. When we needed help, it was not FEMA or MEMA or even the Red Cross that arrived to help. It was Southern Baptist churches from NC, SC and TN. It was the Marine Corps Reserve, volunteers from Ohio and Indiana.

Good people put their lives on hold, left their families and at their own expense spent many days among the debris and stench to provide aid and comfort to those in need.

That is OUR AMERICA and we will always be so grateful to them.

PS: Some of this same Cajun group tried to help save lives in NOLA but were stopped and threatened with arrest because FEMA had not approved them. Hope that they are received better in Houston.


27 posted on 08/28/2017 9:34:06 AM PDT by Hillbilly sage
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To: Hillbilly sage
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28 posted on 08/28/2017 9:35:29 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: TADSLOS; All

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29 posted on 08/28/2017 9:39:45 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: rktman

Yeah....must be something in the water to make those “racist Nazis” want to truly help people


30 posted on 08/28/2017 9:49:20 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee")
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To: caligatrux

Yep, amazing isn’t it? Now watch the Enemedia ignore that and look for ANYTHING to single them out for criticism and “racism”

Like, going to rescue a white family whilst passing the black guy hauling the case of beer


31 posted on 08/28/2017 9:52:29 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee")
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To: Mercat

well done


32 posted on 08/28/2017 9:53:48 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: rktman; SpinnerWebb

33 posted on 08/28/2017 9:56:42 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: zeebee

Dern. I have boat envy.


34 posted on 08/28/2017 9:58:19 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: griswold3

Yes, me too. Bless these heroes.


35 posted on 08/28/2017 10:03:49 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: caligatrux

I love the Cajun Navy made up of coonasses. They are a selfless group. They go out on there own initiative and save everyone one in trouble, but I wonder about the whatevers?


36 posted on 08/28/2017 1:53:12 PM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable and I COLLUDED during the election SO THE DONALD could WIN! I voted.)
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