Well, as happens after a disaster the scumbags and profiteers are showing up.
People dragging water damaged furniture, appliances, etc are being instructed to destroy what they haul out to the curb for garbage collection. It would seem others are going into the area picking this stuff up and selling it without disclosing it was in the flood water.
I saw someone here in Florida complaining about calling to ask if he needed help. He wants people to just show up at damaged houses and go to work. As gun happy as some are in this state it sounds like a good way to get shot. Can you imagine surveying everything you own destroyed and a total stranger just starts hauling stuff away.
I suppose one could go to an area and offer to help strangers, but I'm not sure how people would react. As the owner of a pick up truck I have helped people I know clean up, then haul the stuff to the dump. These were people I knew though. I didn't just show up at a stranger's house and start carting stuff away.
Then there are the scam artists that take a deposit to fix whatever, take a deposit and disappear.