Are these sentences all natural?
(Power outage due to a hurricane...)

There's nothing we can do at the moment but wait.
There's nothing to be done at the moment but to wait.
There's nothing that can be done at the moment but waiting.

Question

Are these sentences all natural?
(Power outage due to a hurricane...)

There's nothing we can do at the moment but wait.
There's nothing to be done at the moment but to wait.
There's nothing that can be done at the moment but waiting.

Answer

The third one is not grammatically correct. Structures such as *but waiting, in this kind of contexts, are wrong.
I would say the most normal sounding sentence is the first one.
As to the second one, as a general rule, you should avoid using the passive voice in all instances where it is not absolutely needed.

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