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>>>Polycarbonate plastic, 1/4 inch thick, used as a bullet stopping clipboard.<<<

Dr. Bill is also a college professor, Berkley and Chico, he is our are and has young children under 10 and grown kids almost your age.

I have listened to him on and off, he loves solving problems, any problem, from dropping food to war torn counties, a package at a time, instead of the pallets that brought out the terrorists to kill and collect them.

He was very interesting during the New Orleans disaster, for he shared with us some of what he was working on, as a problem solving scientist.

He solved the problem of dropping water to the trapped people, in his bathroom.

As I understand it, from bits and pieces, if the bottle is filled to a certain point with water, then sealed, it can be dropped into the flood zone and will float.

From odds and ends heard, Coca Cola stopped the plants and bottled water for dropping and got it out.

A year or so later, I heard on the news that FEMA was destroying thousands of leftover bottles, and I doubt that the news folks were smart enough to understand that they were not off the store shelf bottles.

Dr. Bill says that the people that stayed in the stadium, could have walked out, a mere 5 miles and the deepest water would have been ankle drip.

There is more, but I am distracted by the scanner, which is calling for a “Broken Arrow Training Exercise.......”, guess it is tonight and now....in Las Vegas.

>>>As I understand it, from bits and pieces, if the bottle is filled to a certain point with water, then sealed, it can be dropped into the flood zone and will float.<<<

Back in the 70’s when I lived in Texas, three of us organized an air-drop of food into the Mexican border area - after 3 years of drought, the U.S. opened the floodgates of our dams and totally flooded out their crops the 4th year. Many were stranded without food and miles from the nearest town.

After experimenting, we found that if you put 3 pounds of bagged pinto beans into a trash bag and inflated it then tied it shut, you could air drop it without breaking the bags inside. It was an amazing project - people said nobody would donate, and I got a call one day from Kimbal Foods asking if we could use some pinto beans - I said sure, and he wanted to know where to deliver them - I gave him my address, and he said, are you sure? A 40,000 pound truckload might be easier to let us deliver it to the border for you... A dentist called and offered dental hygiene kits - 25 - not 25 kits but 25 gross.

Then the nay sayers said that the border patrol would never permit us to do it.... We had 3 Border Patrol agents flying their own planes along with us.

Guess the motto is - ‘Never say can’t’.