The management of slow rising river floods.    Begin by being proactive not  reactive.   I would start by having a National volunteer program set up  for munincipalities such as Fargo ND or Cedar Rapids Iowa. The number of volunteers needed to do sandbagging has always been an out cry for help and they show up. The problem sometimes is that volunteers seem to be on top of each other and this creates chaos.  In 2009  Fargo had good leadership but most have no idea of how to organize this labor ridden task. Inside the Fargo Dome for instance with hundreds of volunteers or National Guardsmen sandbagging lifting every sandbag at an average weight of fifty pounds is the most extreme workout a person can do. Front end loaders, forklifts and Dump trucks contributed to exhaust gases created problems within the Dome. I would not use skids to put sandbags on because it is time consuming and requires more space when you could have more volunteers inside rather than thousands outside. Forklifts then take skids and load on tractor trailer flatbeds, then they go to the levee or distribution site. It seems under these conditions to leave the bags where they are and use a front end loader to pick up and use dump trucks rather that flatbeds. Volunteers then only have to lift each bag  once until they reach the levee site reducing time and energy stacking on skids. Volunteers could be sandbagging rather than wasting energy by putting them on skids. Use of all the machines that are on the market were there, getting clogged and wasting time, while 100 volunteers stand around watching. If we had volunteers from different counties sandbagging rather than everyone coming to the flood we could have DOT or National Guard Dump trucks deliver to the levee or declared site once a disaster has been declared and as long as the Governor declares in time to produce the sandbags needed to get the job done. Volunteers from other states came to the aid but had to sleep in their cars or vehicles because all the motels were full due to the in flux of volunteers.  The logistics can determine where the sand and gravel locations are for delivery to a sandbagging site such as school parking lots or any public parking lots. Organize the pick up of sand and then ship to the sandbagging sites and then delivery to the levee or community needed.  Sandbag Funnel.com has a solution to lesson confusion and utilize the volunteers to be more productive by being faster, safer and easier than any other method of sandbagging. This system with 100,000 volunteers from around the state or other states and transport can bag  7,500,000 in 1 HOUR. Taking a week to bag 2 to 4 million sandbags is to slow and even though Fargo and Moorhead saved property,lives and businesses it took to long. So volunteers wasted alot of time.  If we had structured sandbagging sites set up the tax payer would not have to pay for 50,000 meals served by the red cross and thousands of bottles of water distributed.  1000 volunteers could bag per county 75,000 sandbags in one hour and go home for supper rather than working in direct flood areas for a week. If we could get 100 counties  with 1000 volunteers produces 7,500,000 and hope thats all they need.