[BagCamAddict]

I kinda wish all the able-bodied people who are begging to be _______ (rescued, fed, etc.) would, instead, go to the levee breaks and start filling sand bags by hand to plug the levee.

I kinda wish that, instead of using valuable rescue/aid resources on able-bodied people, that the able-bodied people would become AID themselves.... become a good old-fashioned bucket-brigade with sand bags.... Start joining together as a community to help the situation.

Or am I asking too much?

[Shqipo]

The able-bodied should be part of the solution and not helpless victims. When I was just a pup we had the blizzard of 1978 up in New England: For several days no heat, services,open stores, three feet of snow with drifts that buried people in their cars. Our whole neighborhood got together, and shovels in hand, went out to start rescuing people and digging the elderly out of their homes and bring them needed items. No looting, no complaining, no demands for faster assistance. The fiber of America has weakened over the last 27 years: too many people act negligently, do not heed advice, prepare, or feel they have a noble role to play in the face of disaster or even simpler adversity.

[gpapa]

If they can lift 5000 to 20000 sand bags they can try. That and roadway concrete barriers are what they are using to plug the breaches.