"'We ain’t doing no damn good right here,' said Utesch. Brad wondered if the homeowners suspected they were looters."

"They passed other boaters with similar experiences. The few homeowners who were evacuating from this corner of Houston preferred to do so in the back of huge trucks. Back on the highway the two men found Wayne and Juergen and loaded their boats back on to the pickup. 'Well, we tried,' said Brad, dejected. 'The effort and desire were there, the results weren’t,' said Utesch."

From "'We ain’t doing no damn good': volunteer rescuers struggle in Houston/The ‘Cajun navy’ force of helpers from Louisiana are hitting an unexpected problem in the Harvey-flooded city – residents declining to evacuate" in The Guardian.