Cameron
the Cameron Parish Police Jury
Dyson
Minton
Golden Eagle
Dara Mae
the Golden Eagle
Dyson’s
the WoodSprings Suites
CHARLES
Phillip “
Dyson Jr.
Cameron Parish
Hurricane Laura
Ike
Scott Trahan
Phillip Dyson Sr
Rita
John Wayne
Clarence Dyson
John Minton
Frankie Mock
Dara Mae
shrimpers’
Poncho
Parish
through.”Follow Jervis
the Port of Lake Charles
Bayou Contraband
the Golden Eagle
LAKE
La.
Louisiana
Rooster
Shreveport
Lake Charles
Dysons
Poncho
Hurricanes Rita
“Everybody’s family has someone who shrimps.”'It’s pretty much unlivable':Lake Charles finds itself on the brink after Hurricane LauraOn Wednesday night, as Laura strengthened in the gulf and headed for Cameron, Dyson drove his four children, mom, sister, niece and nephew to a WoodSpring Suites hotel in east Lake Charles, then he moored his trawler – christened “Daddy’s Girls” for his three daughters, ages 11 to 16 – to giant steel cleats on the port’s pier. It was the same drill the Dysons had done for Rita and Ike, without incident.“I figured if I stayed with the boat, I’d have a better chance of saving it,” said Dyson, who earned his nickname as a youth by endlessly watching the John Wayne western, "Rooster Cogburn." As Laura’s winds mounted around 1 a.m., swaths of tin roof from a nearby warehouse crashed on the pier next to the boats. “It was like being in a movie.”'I didn’t know it was going to be this bad':Cameron Parish bears brunt of Laura's wrathLifetime shrimper Frankie Mock, 57, had worked on tugboats the past few years but recently purchased two trawlers to return to shrimping: the 50-foot Golden Eagle and the 78-foot Dara Mae. He planned to give the Dara Mae to his son so they could shrimp together, he said. “Once we made daylight, I knew we’d be OK.”As the storm continued its relentless assault, Dyson’s thoughts shifted away from his own survival to that of his kids’, wondering how they were faring, whether the WoodSprings Suites was holding together.“At one point in time, I forgot about everything else and wondered if they made it,” he said.Finally, as dawn approached, the winds began to slowly subside. Dyson said he planned to rip out the bed in his boat’s cabin and install bunk beds so his kids and other family members have a place to sleep.Most of Cameron’s shrimpers didn’t have insurance on their boats, so returning to their jobs will mean repairing their own boats by hand.
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