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Shane William Carnley Sr., 52, a native of Morgan City and resident of Bayou L’Ourse, died Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife, Christi Kelly Carnley of Bayou L’Ourse; two sons, Mason Carnley and Shane Carnley Jr., both of Bayou L’Ourse; mother, Geneieva Carnley of Bayou Vista; father, Ronnie Carnley Sr. of Grant; five siblings, Ronnie Carnley Jr. of Broadway, Virginia, Tiffany McIntyre of Stanton, Virginia, Trish Gaudet of Bayou Vista, Jamie Carnley of Waldron, Arkansas, and Troy Carnley of Morgan City; and a host of other relatives.
He was preceded in death by his maternal and paternal grandparents, and a brother.
Visitation will be Saturday from 3 p.m. until services at 6 p.m. at Twin City Funeral Home, who is in charge of arrangements.

NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard staged assets to respond to Tropical Storm Nicholas while continuing statewide emergency operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on Sept. 13.
There are currently over 5,000 Louisiana Guardsmen protecting lives and property, maintaining communications, and ensuring the continuity of operations and government throughout the state. In addition, there are over 2,500 Guardsmen from 14 other states and over 400 active-duty service members integrated into the response missions.
“The downtown area in Lake Charles and the Sabine River are prone to flooding,” said 527th Engineer Battalion commander Lt. Col. Chris Spurlock. “Even though we’re stationed here in Calcasieu Parish, we’re ready to support operations in the entire region.”
Soldiers with the 1020th Engineer Company, 527th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade from Marksville are staging high-water vehicles (HWV) and flat bottom boats at the Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles in preparation for potential search and rescue operations that may be needed in southwest and south-central Louisiana after Nicholas makes landfall.
“Safety is the number one thing, especially when you get in high water,” said Staff Sgt. Blake Brouillette of the 1020th. “If we must evacuate people, we can load them into the back of the trucks. If the water is too high, we’ll launch our boats, rescue and bring them to higher ground so we can get them to a safe place.”
The LANG currently has 80 HWV’s, 23 boats and 15 helicopters pre-positioned in preparation for the adverse conditions that Nicholas may leave in its wake.
In recent years, emergency operations have become a recurring challenge that LANG Soldiers have met time and again.
“We’ve been doing this for a while, so we’ve gotten quite used to it. Once we get those initial assessments, whether it’s flooding, high-water rescue operations, lily pad operations, whatever the need is for the LANG, we’re here to support,” said Spurlock.
Following Hurricane Ida, National Guard engineer teams have assessed 5,304 miles of roadway and cleared 2,940 miles of road in 20 parishes to date. They have also cleared 31,339 cubic yards of debris from 162 municipal facilities.
More than 600 Louisiana Guardsmen are assisting law enforcement in 17 parishes by providing presence patrols, traffic control and shelter security.
The Regional Staging Area (RSA) located in Tangipahoa Parish is deploying trucks and trailers with commodities and is supporting 34 points of distribution. The RSA has dispatched over 50 vehicles to provide clean, potable water to 10 parishes. Additionally, the LANG has distributed 5,951,355 meals, 283,170 tarps, 7,357,293 liters of water and 1,164,819 bags of ice.
The LANG rescued a total of 397 citizens and 65 pets through air, land and water search and rescue efforts after Hurricane Ida passed and are positioned to support aerial casualty evacuation efforts.
Throughout the hurricane response effort, the LANG has continued COVID-19 operations and is supporting 27 COVID test sites, 17 COVID vaccine sites and seven open food banks.
Please visit https://geauxguard.la.gov/ for the latest LANG releases, photos and videos.

The current issue of the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society includes two papers by LSU Health New Orleans authors.
The first, “An Internal Medicine Residency Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Louisiana,” describes the response of LSU Health New Orleans’ Internal Medicine Residency Program in its three teaching hospitals in metro New Orleans.
The second, “The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Undergraduate Medical Education Experience at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans,” describes the impact of COVID-19 on medical education.
LSU Health Internal Medicine residents rotate at three New Orleans metro area teaching hospitals – University Medical Center, Touro Infirmary and Ochsner-Kenner Medical Center.
The initial rise of COVID-19 at UMC occurred during the third week of March 2020. At the peak, all the hospitals in the greater New Orleans area quickly became inundated with patients affected by COVID-19. The goal of this article, written by Drs. Seth Vignes, Brittany Boudreaux, Shane Sanne, Catherine Hebert and Lee Engel, is to share their experience, designed responses to the multitude of issues facing the internal medicine residency program, and the lessons they learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The second paper, written by Drs. Cathy Lazarus, Hamilton Farris and Robin English, along with medical students Kia Sayers and Nancy Tran, describes LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s efforts and the challenges that lie ahead.
Its conclusion states, “We will maintain our flexibility as the pandemic evolves and anticipate that our community will continue to work together to ensure excellent medical education is received as our students prepare to become the future physicians for the state of Louisiana.”
Other papers in the Special Edition include a guest editorial, “The Resilience of our State” by Dr. Fred Lopez; “COVID-19: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation and Prognosis” by Drs. Fred Lopez and Logan Ledet; “Diagnostic Approach to COVID-19” by Drs. Mohammed Ziada and Victoria Burke; “Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2: An Update” by Drs. Taras Nebeluk and Meredith Clement; “COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease” by Drs. Syed Saad, Murtuza Ali and Neeraj Jain; and “Leadership in the Time of COVID” by Dr. Charles Sanders.
These LSU Health New Orleans faculty physicians and residents have not only cared for patients on the front lines but have also made significant contributions to the body of knowledge about COVID-19.

When we think about boats on Bayou Teche in days gone by, we think first about steamboats.
But a surprising number of ocean-going schooners regularly visited Franklin and other bayou towns, bringing fancy goods and staples from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other places.
According to a story in Harper’s magazine in 1853, this schooner trade started by accident. A captain uncovered the rich Teche trade in the early 1800s when he was hunting for a place to weather a storm.
“Tradition says that … a shrewd downeaster found himself hunting for a harbor along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico,” according to that story. “His brooms, his soap, candles, onions, and cod-fish were tossed about in uncertainty for days and nights, but, true Yankee-like, he turned his misfortunes to a good account, for, ‘guided by Providence,’ he finally found himself after many days in the Teche, surrounded and warmly greeted by a rich agricultural country.
“Here without a rival, he traded and bargained to his heart’s content, exchanging his cargo of ‘notions’ for cotton, fruits, and money, and then bore himself back to the land of ‘steady habits’ a far richer man than when he left it, and the possessor of a secret that gave him the trading monopoly of … the [Teche country].”
That monopoly didn’t last long. A traveler from New Orleans wrote in 1838 that “Franklin … imports direct from the North, and her wharves, in the winter season, are filled with brigs, schooners, and flatboats.”
The Franklin newspaper said in September 1849 that the boats were one of the things that made the fall “a season of interest and excitement” that was “about to break in upon us like a refreshing shower after a severe drought.”
The boats, that story said, “are now beginning to move from the north deeply freighted with rich stores of merchandise with which to flood the country — the bosom of the Teche is soon to be whitened by the sails of northern vessels with gallant streamers floating high in the air — half a score of splendid steamboats will soon be ploughing their way through our lakes and bayous — the dull horn of the oyster-man will soon announce the reappearance of salt water luxuries, and huge flatboats from the upper counties will, before many weeks, [will begin] floating lazily upon the tide of the Teche.”
Two weeks later, ads began to appear in the newspaper for newly filled shops.
S. Smith promoted merchandise brought by the schooner Nimrod, which had just arrived “direct from New York.” Smith promised that “the balance of my goods will arrive in a few days in the Aurora Borealis and the Friends, the whole comprising a very large and well assorted stock.”
Bloch & Godchaux also waited for a “general assortment of clothing and goods” due to arrive aboard the Friends.
The schooner Lanfier delivered to Levy’s store “a splendid assortment of clothing, carpeting, blankets, prints, ladies’ dress goods, hats, boots, and shoes … cutlery, and a general assortment of goods.”
When the Friends did arrive, it turned out to be an unhappy trip. The Planters’ Banner reported on Nov. 1, that after unloading its cargo and heading back to sea, it had to return to Patterson “under the most unpleasant circumstances.”
“The Captain and one of the hands died after they returned to the Bay from Last Island, and the vessel being unable to put to sea under those circumstances has come up the river to remain until arrangements can be made for her to depart.”
Schooners and other small ships called at Franklin regularly enough that the Planters’ Banner began to feature a column of “Marine News” listing arrivals and departures from the town. The column listed more than 20 sailing ships coming or going in the single month of February 1850.
Those schooners brought in tons of goods and also hauled out local produce.
A compilation for the full year 1848 shows that 145 sailing ships called at Franklin.
They left laden with, among other things, 16,589 hogsheads of sugar, 19,614 barrels of molasses, and 55,900 feet of timber.
It appears that crafty Yankee captains weren’t the only ones to turn a profit from the trade.
A collection of Jim Bradshaw’s columns, "Cajuns and Other Characters," is now available from Pelican Publishing. You can contact him at jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1121, Washington LA 70589.