Louisiana's volunteer 'Cajun Navy' is helping Harvey victims as a 'reciprocal gift of love'

Hurricane Harvey.
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The Cajun Navy, a makeshift volunteer group of Louisiana boaters, has banded together to rescue Texans from Hurricane Harvey. On Sunday, a brigade of "pickup trucks and small fishing vessels" traveled more than four hours to the Houston area, hoping to help people who are trapped or stranded, ABC13 reported.

Traversing rising flood waters is nothing new for the group, which formed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and subsequently rescued "more than 10,000 people," The New Yorker reported. Originally, it was just 30 people and 23 vessels, but now the group has thousands of members and a Facebook group, Cajun Navy 2016, which has proved crucial to coordinating volunteer efforts.

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