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At the same hour Hurricane Dolly was blowing ashore in south Texas, Daniel Lumpkin was in Johnson City passing on buckets of cleaning supplies for flooding victims. Each “flood bucket” contains a complete cleaning kit for a flooded house, down to clothes pins and line for drying laundry when the power is off. Lumpkin chose putting together flood buckets as an Eagle Scout project, recruiting help from his brother and fellow scout, John, and members of First United Methodist Church in Lampasas, where his father, George, is pastor. Because he was leaving town for scout camp as the hurricane hit, Daniel handed the 42 buckets off to disaster response volunteers at First UMC in Johnson City, who ferried them on to the Methodist Center in San Antonio where relief for the Valley was being assembled.