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Part of what makes the Cajun Navy far more efficient is that it is completely separate from the government, which has to worry about things like liability, lega

Part of what makes the Cajun Navy far more efficient is that it is completely separate from the government, which has to worry about things like liability, legal hiring, risk analysis, proper management and dispatching, and legislators adding unnecessary red tape. If the Cajun Navy tries to interface with the government, all of those efficiencies would be lost in order to meet regulations and standards that the government would require.

viraptor 9y ago
> which has to worry about things like liability, legal hiring, risk analysis, proper management and dispatching Apart from official hiring issues, why do you think they're free from the other ones? They're all natural things you have to deal with one more than one person is involved.
- michaelt 9y ago
  If the fire department sent firefighters into danger with faulty breathing apparatus and they died because of it, you'd expect the fire department to have to compensate their families, right? But if someone joins the Cajun Navy with faulty equipment and they die because of it, you wouldn't expect the Cajun Navy to be liable for that - if indeed the Cajun Navy is even an identifiable legal entity with any assets.
connorelsea 9y ago
True, but also, recent disasters were "freak" ones. Flooding on this level has never really happened in these areas before. A lot of the homes destroyed didn't require flood insurance (homes in the standard flood planes / hurricane areas do require that the owner have flood insurance) When your town looks like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXGin-zNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXGin-zNA , and the fire department is fully underwater, the locals with boats win on quick response time. (Followed by disaster-specific response teams like the coast guard, etc.)
- jtnegrotto 9y ago
  They're only freak incidents if you're looking from a narrow enough vantage point. Pretty much everyone in Louisiana has grown up hearing about the flood of 1927, for example.

viraptor 9y ago

> which has to worry about things like liability, legal hiring, risk analysis, proper management and dispatching Apart from official hiring issues, why do you think they're free from the other ones? They're all natural things you have to deal with one more than one person is involved.

michaelt 9y ago
If the fire department sent firefighters into danger with faulty breathing apparatus and they died because of it, you'd expect the fire department to have to compensate their families, right? But if someone joins the Cajun Navy with faulty equipment and they die because of it, you wouldn't expect the Cajun Navy to be liable for that - if indeed the Cajun Navy is even an identifiable legal entity with any assets.

connorelsea 9y ago

True, but also, recent disasters were "freak" ones. Flooding on this level has never really happened in these areas before. A lot of the homes destroyed didn't require flood insurance (homes in the standard flood planes / hurricane areas do require that the owner have flood insurance) When your town looks like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXGin-zNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXGin-zNA , and the fire department is fully underwater, the locals with boats win on quick response time. (Followed by disaster-specific response teams like the coast guard, etc.)

jtnegrotto 9y ago
They're only freak incidents if you're looking from a narrow enough vantage point. Pretty much everyone in Louisiana has grown up hearing about the flood of 1927, for example.