It's been years but a lot of the houses that look like dumps with crap all over the yard have many a coffee can stuffed with hundred dollar bills. Cash is king down there Back when Cameron was a booming offshore service port, most everyone working in the oilfield, but had cattle at home, trapped, guided, crabbed for cash which was never reported.

There used to be a big problem when white shrimp were running in the fall. Ships coming up the channel would end up ramming some stupid mofo in his pontoon boat type with butterfly nets. If he sued and it went to court, the first question would be "How much did you file with the IRS on earnings last year?" Case was always dropped ASAP. Cash is never reported.

Also back when there were several poggie plants down in Cameron, the local fisherment and poggie fishermen (from Carolinas) would get into some hellacious barroom brawls, filet knives would come out since they all carried them sheaved off their belts.

Sheriff Dept would respond with black jacks knocking as many out as they could before sorting out what happened. FBI agents was often called down to testify due "civil rights" case from one of the poggie fishermen. FBI agent would always testify that it is like the Old West down there so the sheriff deputies were not being prejudiced because the knock everyone out that they could.

Cameron has been on life support business wise since the oil crash of the mid 80's

FTR, it is a deepwater port, Fourchon isn't really one. Before all the LNG, there is a hole in the Calcasieu River where the old river channel coming out of Big Lake meets with the dredged ship channel. Back in the early 80's it was something like 1200 feet long and no shallower than 80 feet deep. The favorite loading place for semisubmersible heavylift ships to load or offload jackup rigs.

I have been on this the Mighty Servant 1 when it was new and loaded a rig down there. it was the biggest and baddest at the time, they are much larger now.
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