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It's too often we are talking about the bad here but in times of tragedy people really step up and show us the good. As you know the Midwest is battling severe flooding. Today around noon a broadcast went out on local radio that the situation in a near by town was dire and they needed all the volunteers they could get immediately. With in a half hour nearly 100 people had dropped everything, many people like us fighting our own fight came to aid in filling sand bags, and placing them on the levee. It was an amazing demonstration of human kindness and compassion. To drop your day, to take off work, to stop moving your own belongings out of harms way to go hope someone whose situation is just a little worse.

I'm proud to report that as of 8pm the levee was holding and the situation improved greatly. This story will play out across the Midwest dozens of times in the next few weeks.

I don't know, I feel like being proud of someone for helping isn't something we should acknowledge or appreciate. We should all be somber and keep our heads down silently to respect the gravity of the situation.


Also, I think it's [expletive] that the people's liberty to not help was assaulted by a radio broadcast asking to do something for the greater good. How many times are we going to let a flood or a tornado or whatever take over our lives?!

On a similar note, I was watching the emergency response coordinator in West, Texas giving a news conference the night of the explosion and he had to explain that they did not need any more help. He actually asked people not to come, that it was causing too much extra work to direct the inflow of people. I wish more had been made of that. I found it very awesome that in response to such a disaster that those people actually had TOO MUCH HELP.

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