>>>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’.
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’.<<<
Good for you and thanks for putting out the effort.
I remember the incident, for we were at Wellton, a town that is supported by those same canals, for all its farming.
I was always a little worried about the fact that the dirty water from the flooding of fields, the salts and ? was shipped on down to Mexico, knew it could not be good for their soils.
Another feather for your wings.