(Millions of sandbags and millions of sandbags)

(As floodwaters flow out of the Red River Valley, volunteers flow in to help residents remove millions and millions of sandbags)



The folks around here have been taxed for the last month with building up the sandbags

Uh, we feel it's an opportunity for folks throughout the state, throughout the region that are just dying to help out 
We're expecting a bunch of volunteers today we're planning on five hundred and they'll be going out to two areas south of Moorhead, uh, Crestwood and 80th Street and one area north of Moorhead, Oakport, and Georgtown and they'll be removing sandbags today.

We will be providing communications between all stations Red Cross, FEMA, Salvation Army, to make sure sandbaggers are safe, fed, hydrated, and if any emergencies arise we can communicate that to the service that will be needed.

I am originally from the Seattle area, and I've lived out here five years and I've helped out with earthquakes and lil sum Mt. St. Helens when that was going on so this is new for me and it's exciting and frightening at the same time.

I've never seen flood like this I've never seen such devastation that the people in the community have to go through.

It's a community. It's a family and regardless, young, old, we came together and now it's time to clean up.

Just keep one foot in front of the other and keep going.

These people got up at, uh, it must have been awful early in order to get up here.

And they came a long ways to do it.

They're all volunteers. 

They came down here on their own time.

And it's a godsend for everybody that can use them.

It's unbelievable the help you get if the whole world could work this way it would be a whole lot better.

It's  have no words for it.

It's a learning lesson and it's a  it's just I'm honored to be here to help the.

(For more information go to www.fema.gov)