sandbags

Big sandbags is what we have come up with 36 hours after the levee has broken.

Balloon Juice » 2005 » August 2005

Photo by Kenneth Helphand.) (Helphand writes, In the 1990-91 Gulf War, a green tarp held down by sandbags is transformed into 'lawns,' with a sign warning 'stay off.'

Defiant Gardens 2007

Photo by Kenneth Helphand.) (Helphand writes, In the 1990-91 Gulf War, a green tarp held down by sandbags is transformed into 'lawns,' with a sign warning 'stay off.'

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

At 10.30 one morning I crawled over the parapet -- that is, the sandbags -- of our trench to sketch the picture of which this distillery shaft is the central feature.

A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

Authorities had considered dropping half-ton sandbags from a National Guard helicopter to shore up the dam that stands between the endangered homes and the river.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

Those who live close to the floodwall say they realize that the sandbags are the only thing keeping them from total inundation.

NYT > Home Page By THOMAS FULLER 2011

Authorities had considered dropping half-ton sandbags from a National Guard helicopter to shore up the dam that stands between the endangered homes and the river.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

Authorities on Wednesday considered dropping half-ton sandbags from a National Guard helicopter to shore up the dam that stands between the endangered homes and the river.

msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

The theory had been that the sandbags were the culprit, but eventually he walked right over them, no more spooked than he was any other place.

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2010

The theory had been that the sandbags were the culprit, but eventually he walked right over them, no more spooked than he was any other place.

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2010