With less than 12 hours before Irma hit, local and state parks were set up by municipalities to help people make and distribute DIY sandbags. They offered shovels, woven plastic bags, and the dirt. All you had to do was show up, shovel dirt, tie and take bags, leave the shovels for the next chap, and be on your merry way. Found it ironic, at the next dirt pile over, to witness a massive (literal) red-neck, crew cut, leather belt/boot, cross & bar tout'n gent generously helping out an appreciative young black family whose kids were too young to be at home alone. The man was shoveling the the dirt for the (presumably) mother as the kids would tie the bag as best they could, and he'd lug the bags to their car. Before doing his batch and gettin' gone. Maybe things like that are one of the reasons FL a part of the "Deep South." Or just another example of "CSA wasn't racist" thinkin' chaps. Who knows.