BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – As the flood waters rose in Texas, Josh Gill was packing his bags to get there as soon as he could. It was the 118th disaster for him as the incident commander for the United Cajun Navy. They spent the last month in Texas digging through destruction to try and bring closure to some families.
You know, we try to do everything we possibly can and flip every rock. Look in every tree to make sure these people go home,” Gill says. “Emotionally, it ranks up there – it ranks up there with the worst. Every disaster is different, but it was bad. This was an absolute catastrophic event that impacted so many families, not only in Texas, but nationwide.”
Gill tells WAFB that the United Cajun Navy prayed together every morning, asking to be handed the hard jobs, which they were. They were up morning and night looking for signs of people…