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clarice

(5,504 posts) Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:44 AM Aug 2016

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Country folks can survive...hats off to the Cajun Navy. link below.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/volunteer-cajun-navy-rescues-fellow-community-members-trapped/story?id=41482404

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Country folks can survive...hats off to the Cajun Navy. link below. (Original Post) clarice Aug 2016 OP

Those people down there have really answered the call. NaturalHigh Aug 2016 #1

People helping people. :) n/t Honest.Dem Aug 2016 #2

These pictures are SOOOO different than the Katrina pictures WhiteTara Aug 2016 #3

Great service, Cajun Navy! One reason the pics are different... Eleanors38 Aug 2016 #4

Exactly... Blue_Tires Aug 2016 #6

I remember them being kept out...I couldn't understand why WhiteTara Aug 2016 #7

+1 Blue_Tires Aug 2016 #5

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)

1. Those people down there have really answered the call.

Reply to clarice (Original post)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:56 AM

Aug 2016

Honest.Dem

(30 posts)

2. People helping people. :) n/t

Reply to clarice (Original post)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:02 PM

Aug 2016

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)

3. These pictures are SOOOO different than the Katrina pictures

Reply to clarice (Original post)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:57 PM

Aug 2016

People are smiling in these and are being rescued and helped. What a world of difference between administrations.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

4. Great service, Cajun Navy! One reason the pics are different...

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:39 PM

Aug 2016

...many folks with boats and supplies were prevented from accessing the NO area. Quite a few got in anyway, but not nearly enough. Fish & Game departments from Texas to Florida, and other sportspersons, did respond the best they could. The same can be said of rescuers in ground vehicles: Many were prevented.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

6. Exactly...

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:44 PM

Aug 2016

Folks couldn't get in to help, and people in trouble couldn't get out just to survive...

The LEO/"armed patriotic citizen" behavior during Katrina was reprehensible

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)

7. I remember them being kept out...I couldn't understand why

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 05:04 PM

Aug 2016

and it's great that they were able to help this time around.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

5. +1

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:41 PM

Aug 2016

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