A 'Cajun Navy' of makeshift boats is mounting its own Dunkirk to rescue victims of Harvey
PORT ARTHUR, Texas - In no other place in America would there be a traffic jam like this.
On U.S. 90 east of Houston on Wednesday morning, hundreds of trucks, many of them towing boats, were in bumper-to-bumper traffic fording six inches of floodwater - the remnants of Tropical Storm Harvey's second swing at south Texas.
These drivers weren't fleeing the still-swirling storm. They were headed straight for it.
The last five days of serial hurricane assaults have prompted Texas volunteers to mobilize what some are describing as their own Dunkirk - the epic World War II rescue in which an ad hoc civilian armada helped
