This is not the time for panic; it's the time for planning. Those are the words recently spoken by a local mayor who served his community brilliantly last spring. As such, people listen to him. The plan right now is to fill a million sandbags before the snow even melts, and have them stored safely in a warehouse nearby. Now we wait, listening to flood forecasts and the planned response.In the meantime, winter continues as usual. The snowpack builds and the winds blow. Foxes and pheasants scamper on the hard crust. They fear no flood. But they wait and watch the weather, too. We all do.
What I want to know is, before it hits crisis level, who will they find to fill these million sandbags? Last year, the college students were given time off from school and they were a HUGE force -- even employees could take time off to help with the efforts. If it's not at crisis stage, who will be able to fill the bags? I hope the city has a plan...
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