United Cajun Navy reaching people who need help after Ida

HOUMA, La. — Disaster volunteers are hard astatine enactment trying to wide paths to immoderate of the astir heavy damaged areas successful Louisiana successful the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

The United Cajun Navy shared a video of their teams moving tress with dense instrumentality to get into Houma, a metropolis southwest of New Orleans.

The United Cajun Navy is simply a squad of citizens that started rescuing radical with their ain boats and supplies aft Hurricane Katrina.

“These guys are hoping to get down there. Tons of radical trapped successful houses successful Houma, tons of radical a small spot southbound of Houma down there. This is simply a mess. This is, this is arsenic atrocious oregon worse than Katrina,” said Todd Terrell, the laminitis and president of the United Cajun Navy.

Terrell had volunteers moving overnight Monday to get into parishes that historically flood.

Communication is unspeakable with compartment work struggling close now. They get connection connected societal media and Wi-Fi intermittently of radical needing rescue.

The United Cajun Navy besides shared a video of a squad person from North Carolina who besides works with the U.S. Veterans Corps helping a household successful the mediate of the storm. A histrion had fallen connected their house. Luckily, the squad managed to get them to safety

“Leonard is the benignant of idiosyncratic that erstwhile a catastrophe hits similar this, he's going to beryllium there,” said Terrell. “When we told him that the Galliano and Chauvin and Cocodrie areas were affected and we couldn't get to it, helium says, ‘You springiness maine a representation and I’ll get there.’ And that's what they did astatine 1 o'clock this morning, truthful they're cutting telephone poles astatine the road, you cognize we've talked with immoderate of the section sheriff and each down determination and helium said immoderate you tin do, conscionable unfastened the road.”

The United Cajun Navy is staging supplies and volunteers conscionable extracurricular Baton Rouge. You tin donate oregon marque a petition for assistance arsenic good for anyone successful the country needing assistance done their Facebook leafage oregon website.

As for the stateless animals successful Louisiana, the ASPCA helped evacuate immoderate retired of Ida’s way earlier the tempest hit. Some 150 dogs, cats, and kittens were moved retired of section shelters on the Gulf Coast and sent arsenic acold distant arsenic Delaware, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Helping wide impacted shelters frees up abstraction for section pets that whitethorn beryllium displaced.