This Cajun Navy is a nebulous, informal thing, it has no real corps or officers. It’s “an intensely informal and unorganized operation,” says Academy Award-winning filmmaker Allan Durand, a Lafayette, La., native, who did a documentary on the “Cajun Navy” volunteer-boats following Katrina. During the impromptu rescue effort, someone wrote “Cajun Navy” on a large white ice chest. “The Cajun Navy is just a branding mechanism for volunteers that come to help their fellow citizens,” Honore says. “In every single one of these storms, most of the people saved were saved by neighbours saving neighbours.

Source: National Post August 30, 2017 02:09 UTC