In the small city of Houma, Louisiana, about an hour southwest of New Orleans, volunteer rescue workers with a “Cajun Navy” group struggled in the wee hours of Monday to navigate streets strewn with trees toppled by Hurricane Ida's ferocious winds.
The group had sped down from Lafayette after getting reports of people trapped by the fierce storm's floodwaters. Rob Gaudet, a 52-year-old software developer from Baton Rouge, fielded dozens of distress calls about hard-hit communities.
The Cajun Navy, a term coined to describe volunteer boat owners who helped with rescues in the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, has become a familiar presence at U.S. natural disaster scenes. Neither trained first responders nor medical professionals, they show up with the basic goal of helping get people out of immediate harm's way.
It took them nearly an hour to travel a few blocks through the maze of downed wires and trees to the Lake Houmas Inn.But they did find a 60-year-old woman who said she had fallen down a flight of steps at the height of the storm, gashing her head and injuring her neck. One of the volunteers, Pete Sterk, waded through about a foot of water in the parking lot to reach her downstairs room.
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