- You might want to watch your step.
As you can tell, you know,
it's pretty bad off right here where we at.
You know, if you walk into your neighborhood
and you see this, it's really, really hard.
You can tell, my next door neighbor right here, Mr.
Steve and his wife,
they actually lost their home completely.
You know, it's -- You know, it is what it is.
- It was rough.
I heard noises that I will never forget.
I'll never stay for another one.
- It just was a terrible situation.
A lot of wind, a lot of tornadoes.
- The eye passed right up --
probably about five miles from this,
so we got the brunt of the storm right here in Dulac.
- The wind picked up, started blowing real hard,
and after it started blowing real hard,
we started watching things.
Once the shingles started blowing off the roof,
then my son-in-law told me, he said, "Look, father-in-law,"
said, "the doggone shed done blew in --
the doors on the shed done blew in also."
And yesterday afternoon, late, before dark,
we came walking over here to check on this house,
and this one had blown to pieces.
Thank God we're alive, I mean, and we saved everybody's life
and nobody's injured.
And that's the most important thing
because the material things are all replaceable.
So we just want to thank God and be grateful
that we're still here, alive,
and we survived this thing, you know, because somewhere,
somehow, somebody didn't make it, you know.
- We've rode out plenty before. I was here for Katrina.
60 miles away from where it hit, but I stayed.
I was here.
Was here for Rita, too.
This was all open, all busted.
- How long will it take him to fix it?
- I don't know if it can be fixed.
- Right.
- There won't be a next time for me down here.
- Right, yeah. - We're going to run.
- Why did you not evacuate this time?
- You know, it comes down to money, having the money,
knowing that we would be away for weeks on end.
And the hotel prices went up.
We had people talking about that, you know,
as we were watching leading up to the storm.
They were getting away, and they were like,
"We're paying $200 a night for just a old rinky-dink place
to stay in," and who can afford that?
- There's no running water, there's no electricity,
none of that's working.
All the facilities are down.
The telephone, cell phone towers are down.
We have no communications, nothing.
We may be a couple months before we get power.
But that's okay.
This is not the first rodeo.
We've been here before, we have done it before, you know.
And we're going to prevail, we're going to come on top
because we got a good God on our side,
and we're going to trust the Lord,
and we're going to get through this.
And we'll get through it as a family,
and we're going to get through it with the neighbors
and everybody around us.
- Everybody seems to be doing okay down here.
I could tell you.
I mean, it's a lot, a lot of damage, but you got to realize,
Cajuns are resilient people.
We go through this all the time.
- You don't think about moving out of here?
- No, no, no. We Cajuns, Cajuns don't move.
We're used to this weather.
Yeah, Cajuns don't move.