my brother was a shrimper. all my family were shrimpers. and stood here in this community. we worked hard. we built it up. i had a business of my own for 40 years here. i owned a restaurant, which i sold about four years ago. this community is devastated. we re a community of hard-working people. we are a small town. we re resilient. we stick together. we ve been through many, many storms, but it comes a time that you get older and what more can you do? i want the federal government to realize how vital this community is. it s a lot of good, hard-working people that bring seafood into the united states, probably more seafood along the louisiana coast than any other state. we need the government to realize how vital we are,
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday commitment to purchase an additional $25 million in wild-caught shrimp that should benefit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, according to a press release from Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. The USDA announced the purchase of Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic wild-caught shrimp through its Section 32 Program for distribution to […]
on the coast, it affects shrimpers, it affects the person who is running the hotel, restaurants. all that is playing together. this is, chris, the new normal that folks are having to deal with, especially those whose lives and livelihoods are rooted to the river. it s also about tra digdition. but now they re going to have to prepare for what comes next. one of the things i ve seen as i ve been covering this story is, you know, the number of people who, again, through tradition, through their family, through their political believes, have been climate dinners, but it took one incident off and one thing like the woman i spoke to who went to see the northern lights and saw that the road to the kmunt she was going to was completely submerged. now she is an activist and i m wondering if you are seeing the impact there along the delta that it s getting harder and harder not to recognize what s going on with the planet? . that s right, chris.
and all of a sudden it s like boom somebody dropped a drum full of water on you reporter: though the monster storm is turning well offshore, it s already threatening the livelihood of shrimpers during a crucial time of year this comes in here, it s going to mess us up.es in here, it s going to mess us up. reporter: across the u.s. more than a thousand flights reporter: across the u.s. more than a thousand flights cancelled today. airports in fort lauderdale and west palm beach are shut down, orlando international closing tomorrow i ve never experienced a hurricane. hopefully i can get out of here before that happens. fingers crossed. orlando international closing tomorrow. i ve never experienced a hurricane. hopefully i can get out of here before that happens. fingers crossed. reporter: tonight the race to beat dorian who in reporter: tonight the race to beat dorian who in their right mind would stay in a trailer during a hurricane? reporter: under way. righ
a rental car so it may not be the shrimpers in the pictures after all but stephanie keeps looking. that has no thought of laughter yeah i m a sham i should say that there is a name for this is the this is really interesting the 18 year old son is named his name is yeah it makes sense yeah i did much didn t appear in any out before it is. there is a kind of logic and because he would have been too young at the time to even $945.00 or $46.00 he would have. in 10 years old. he has no property so he didn t fill out an application stand so this might be your missing link to have was something. that s the one. you keep our short term was 10 years old in 1946 he still could be alive. maybe i ll be able to find him online. i ll see if he has any other relatives.