Cajun Navy groups sending boats and say they're ready to help in Texas amid Imelda flooding.
Clyde Cain, founder of the Louisiana Cajun Navy, said he has a few boats in the hardest-hit areas to help first responders. Another group, Cajun Navy 2016, said it's deploying resources, as well.
America’s Cajun Navy had assembled an emergency flotilla of some 10 boats comprised of Lafayette-area volunteers as they made rescues in heavily flooded Southeast Texas, mostly in a stretch of Interstate 10 from Vidor to Winnie. Tropical Depression Imelda had dumped up to 41 inches of rain in the area over the past three days.
Cajun Navy spokesman John Billiot said volunteers arrived in the affected areas around 9:30 a.m. and had made rescues, including one of a 400-pound man. Billiot described flooding as erratic; some neighborhoods in Vidor and nearby Rose City, which were devasted Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey in 2017, were less affected. Other sustained more serious flooding.
