rescue

ok, so the gov and fema etc. are doing so much for these people on the gulf, but something that i don't understand is why can't people from surrounding areas who can afford gas and have a car that can seat like 7+ people load up with water and supplies, drive down there as far as they can, or as soon as they see people who they can help, and dispense the supplies and load up with people and take them back to a place where they can be safe and get clean and some food and shelter? the church i grew up with here has at least 2 huge tour busses and i don't know how many 15 person vans. you drive down there with all that loaded up with stuff for these people, you'll help quite a few and rescue quite a few more. yeah, you're still going to have 25,000 or whatever people down there, but you'll have made a difference to even a few, and isn't that what this is all about? doing as much as you can, even if it's little? and what's to stop the buses from going back? i know gas is insane right now, but let's say (still taking a big church, for example) everyone at church gave 1 dollar, that'd be like $16,000, i don't know how much gas and water that would buy, but i bet it's a lot, and a lot more than what those people in the south have right now.

but maybe the rest of the world is just like me, saying 'but what can i do? i'm only one person! i can't leave school, i have to finish up' what makes graduating so important? school will still be here when i get back if i went. i don't have a lot of money but i want to help. i'm sure there are lots of people just like me. maybe the people in texas and florida and alabama and wherever else can't because it'd throw the rescue efforts into (more) chaos. what would i do if i lived there? would i risk my own safety and open my resources to complete strangers? i don't know. i'd like to think so . . . once, in some history class in high school i heard that winston churchill told everyone that anyone with a boat go and help save these people. i don't know what war or what coast, but i fail to see how this is different. so many people in florida have boats, and i would guess the same is true for texas, so why can't they go? i don't understand.

there's so much i don't understand about relieft efforts . . .