In the Critical Places, the Simple Sandbag Fills the Breach
9/8/2005
One of the lasting images of the New
Orleans disaster will be that of helicopters ferrying sandbags
into place along the city's breached levees and floodwalls.
Flood control and recovery is a low-tech activity and the sandbag
still is the preferred method.
Lined up in rows, each bag weighed in at 3,000 lbs. (Photo by Michael
Goodman for ENR)
