2 posts tagged “sandbag”
the water washed away everything
but the chance to begin again
so we came from cities & towns,
from long golden fields
& we stood side by side
until we made a bridge to dry land,
back to a place
we have promised to hold safe
for each other's children,
back to a place
called America
the situation:
- water rising well above the 500 year flood stages. flooding on all fronts.
the solution setup:
- buy a massive amount of sand (actually something that looks more like kitty litter)
- buy a massive amount of bags (burlap, plastic, etc.)
- buy a massive amount of plastic ties to tie off the bag openings
- put up 20-30 stations of sandbag manufacturing, each station consists of:
- two saw horses
- a wood panel with 3 holes cut out
- three traffic cones turned upside down in the holes
the front line sandbag production jobs:
- the bagger: the bagger sits in front of an inverted cone and places an empty bag beneath the cone opening
- the digger: shovels the sand mixture into the inverted opening of the cone
- the finisher: twists the bag and ties it off with a plastic tie
- the pitcher: throws the completed bag into a forklift so that it can be loaded into a truck for distribution
requirements:
- large machinery, dump trucks, forklifts, etc.
- heavy gloves
- lots of gatoraide, food stuffs
