Another boat is halfway on land that sunk. MORRIS: Patrick Danos works on a dock that serves these shrimp boats, and he says that at least a hundred in this part of Louisiana are sunk or wrecked on land.ĭANOS: A boat smashed up right here. PATRICK DANOS: You're looking at a sunk boat right here, a cabin of the boat right there, a sunk boat right there. The southeast end of it hugs Bayou Lafourche - normally a safe harbor for shrimp boats that Hurricane Ida turned upside down. And as NPR's Frank Morris reports, that was just the most recent in a long series of powerful blows.įRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: Louisiana Highway 1 runs all the way across the state. The storm thrashed boats, docks and whole towns essential to the shrimping industry.
When Hurricane Ida came ashore almost two weeks ago, most of Louisiana's commercial fishermen were right in the way.
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