Cajun Flat Stanley Tales of Hurricane Rita

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Cajun Flat Stanley Tales of Hurricane Rita
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On Saturday morning, September 24, 2005 Hurricane
Rita water pushed water into Vermilion Parish.
Erath a small town was under water.
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Though Hurricane Rita hit near Johnson Bayou to
the west of Vermilion Parish, her water pushed
into Vermilion Bay flooding many parish towns and
communities.
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The flood was caused by Hurricane Ritas tidal
surge. This is Erath, Louisiana, a small town of
2000 people.
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All schools were severely damaged. All 1800
Erath students had to be housed in other
Vermilion Parish Schools.
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These are some flood pictures Cajun Stanley
shared in the Vermilion Parish area. This is what
the entire town looked like.
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This is a school in Erath. It is called Dozier
Elementary. It is a Pre K through 4th grade
school with over 800 children.
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This is Dozier Elementary during the flood. The
school had 3 feet of water.
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This was Erath Middle School during the flood.
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This is Erath High School under water.
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Even the Erath High School Football Stadium was
under water.
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Dozier Elementary was badly damaged from the
flood water. This are pictures a week after the
storm. Cajun Stanley said everything was just a
huge mess.
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Cajun Stanley explained that like Dozier
Elementary, the other two Erath schools, Erath
Middle and Erath High lost most of their things.
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All of the Erath streets were filled with debris
and trash for weeks as people tried to clean the
mess of Hurricane Ritas flooding water.
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Stanley met a teacher named Ms. Stacy Bodin. Her
class shared their stories with Stanley. Stanley
also heard a special story about Hurricane
Katrina during his visit.
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29,
2005. Erath is about 150 miles from New Orleans.
Ms. Stacys sister and her family lost their
home, but their pet rabbit Bugs survived the
flooding in New Orleans. The children in her
classroom loved the story of Bugs survival.
Click here for more about Bugs and Nick.
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Cajun Flat Stanley arranged a surprise for Ms.
Stacy 2nd graders.

• After Stanley heard these hurricane
  stories he was so was touched. To help the
  children in Ms. Stacy Bodins class feel better,
  Cajun Stanley arranged a surprise visit for the
  class. Stanley had heard the true story of Bugs
  the rabbit who survived the 42 days in Hurricane
  Katrinas flooded water in New Orleans. To cheer
  up the Dozier Class, Cajun Stanley brought BUGS
  to meet the kids. Bugs, the children and Cajun
  Stanley had a blast even though Hurricanes had
  disrupted everyones lives!

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2nd Graders meet Bugs and his owners.
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The End

• For more information or pictures about Hurricane
  Rita or Katrinas damages, cick here.