[freebilly]

I would suggest that in the US, every sales show room and manufacturing facility of jet (not engine, but where in lieu of a prop, they use a pump to propel the craft) boats be cleared out and all such craft immediately shipped down to New Orleans. This would include all PWC (personal watercraft) as these small, highly maneuverable one and two man craft can negotiate where larger boats cannot.

Well, who pays for this...?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

You have to be kidding, who do you think is paying for all the relief and help? We are fellow human beings first, and taxpayers second.

When other American's lives are in immediate jeopardy of being lost, with time rapidly running out for the helpless, it matters not a damn who pays for it, the government should just do it, or whatever else it takes. there are untold thousands of volunteers who would be willing to take the risk just to help in anyway possible.