Reply #3: Lack of cooperation vexes rescuer in Terrebonne [View All]

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http://www.nola.com/hurricane-ike/index.ssf/2008/09/lack_of_cooperation_vexes_resc.html

DULAC -- Gunning his rescue boat down the inundated main drag in the fishing village of Grand Caillou, state Wildlife and Fisheries agent Joe Arnaud can overcome anything Hurricane Ike throws his way.

But there's one thing he says he can't get over: people who aren't willing to be saved or to cooperate with rescuers.


On Friday night and Saturday morning, Arnaud and his boat saved 33 people from Ike, which caused more destruction in lower Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes than 2005's Hurricane Rita, the last major hurricane to pass to the west and bring devastation to the two parishes. ...(much more on LA bayou country)