I’ve been reading elsewhere about the flood in Houston and I came across something I hadn’t considered before. Those people coming to help from Louisiana, they are hunters and fishermen.
When things go south, as they have in Houston, and you are in the midst of a large natural disaster, there is one group of people that are used to being in places cold and rainy and wet without roads or rules.
They’re descending on Houston in their fleets of flat-bottomed aluminum boats, the sport fishermen and duck hunters outnumbering the government rescuers by the hundreds, their skiffs sitting low in the floodwaters with their human catch in the back, clutching plastic-wrapped possessions.
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Good video here too www.washingtonpost.com/… I notice only one person talking on their cell phone in the entire vid, these folks don’t spend their lives talking on cell phones. Love the French names and Cajun accents that sometimes pop up.
In looking for photos for this post I came across picture after picture of boats full of people being plucked out of their neighborhoods. God knows where they are all going to go or how they are going to feed them or give them shelter but at least they are out of their flooded homes and neighborhoods. And the impetuous for this effort is neighbor helping neighbors, just as is done most places I’ve been. Rather than send money or prayers these people loaded up their trucks and went to help.