Hell or High Water: How Cajun Fortitude Withstood Hurricanes Rita and Ike Angola © 2021 University of Louisiana

© 2021 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press

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Hell or High Water: How Cajun Fortitude Withstood Hurricanes Rita and Ike Angola © 2021 University of LouisianaHow Cajun Fortitude Withstood Hurricanes Rita and Ike Ron Thibodeaux 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Regional Non fiction Winner 2013 Independent Publishers Silver IPPY Award in Southern Regional Non ficton Americans will long remember 2005 as the year of the hurricane, when so many storms formed in the north Atlantic that we ran out of names and had to use letters of the Greek alphabet to identify them. In the midst of that turmoil, one of the