More than 96,000 sandbags had already been distributed by Saturday.
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In Orlando, dozens were filling sandbags to help with flooding.
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A handful of Louisiana parishes handed out sandbags to residents.
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At the entrances, sandbags and tires are stacked in fortification.
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Callimachi: And sandbags all around the building on the balcony.
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We also filled sandbags and did guard duty (without weapons).
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The plant has already placed sandbags in key external sites.
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Now, they're getting used to putting sandbags around their home.
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Usually these are basements of existing buildings, buttressed by sandbags.
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Buyers don't get excited when they see homes surrounded by sandbags.
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The local government would set to work putting sandbags in place.
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With more crests coming, residents pile sandbags, watch levees and wait.
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Except for some sandbags and straw bales, preparatory work was minimal.
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The company is not alone in offering an alternative to sandbags.
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"There was a checkpoint here, there were sandbags there," he said.
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Residents worked to secure the area, filling the gap with sandbags.
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Tangipahoa Parish in the state alone requested tens of thousands of sandbags.
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I tried to open my eyes but again, the sandbags were back.
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People load sandbags at a makeshift filling station in Palm Coast, Fla.
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Residents in Kissimmee, Florida, scramble to fill sandbags to protect against flooding.
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Sandbags were stacked outside hotels, shops and other businesses along Canal Street.
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He posted photos on social media showing him filling sandbags with volunteers.
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The sandbags she had laid around the property had been carried away.
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Deputies helped people to evacuate, and prisoners were assigned to fill sandbags.
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In Ascension Parish, officials were still handing out sandbags and urging evacuations.
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Barrels and sandbags line the entrance to fortify it as a bunker.
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Calling themselves the Free Saraqib Army, they dug trenches and filled sandbags.
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At the bottom, more plywood angled over sandbags formed a launch bump.
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The edges of the flat roof were lined with barrels and sandbags.
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Children play on sandbags installed to slow the effects of rising seas.
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Another area had a dirt ground and a wall lined with sandbags.
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These heavy sandbags did the trick of protecting the interior from drafts.
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Sandbags lined the walls; electrical cords ran along the floor and ceiling.
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I tried to open my eyes but again, the sandbags were back.
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Every time there's a fall storm, it retreats even further, sandbags or no.
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But by the time they arrived, the sandbags had all been given away.
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The city's fire department has given out 35,800 sandbags to residents, Landrieu said.
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Sandbags are on hand and water levels will be monitored through the weekend.
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Sandbags were piled up outside garages and front doors, and along swimming pools.
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Sandbags, like plywood, were gone, as were certain kinds of screws and nails.
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More than 96,000 sandbags had been delivered to Hinds County, the governor said.
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Bunkers piled with sandbags and checkpoints marked with oil barrels dotted the highway.
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More than 96,000 sandbags have been delivered to Hinds County, the governor said.
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Public schools are closed, and the fire department has started handing out sandbags.
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He delivered sandbags to firefighters but had to stop because of deep water.
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In South Carolina, the low-lying coastal city of Charleston was handing out sandbags.
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A sign for the visitor parking lot, secured by sandbags, had easily toppled over.
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Others stacked sandbags outside or waded through waist-high floods in the torrential rain.
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A woman fills sandbags along Daytona Beach, Fl in advance of Hurricane Matthew's arrival.
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Ms. Capriles drove around Orlando looking for sandbags on Thursday, but there were none.
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Here, the aircraft lurk, predatory, in landscapes of bombed-out cities, fields of sandbags.
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Six years after Hurricane Sandy, here's what they came up with: really big sandbags.
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Businesses owners piled sandbags in front of their stores to keep the water out.
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Lines of vehicles stretched for miles and many waited several hours to get the sandbags.
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In the community of Bell Canyon in Ventura County, Paul Manion was busy filling sandbags.
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They transported "commodities, helicopters, sustainment enablers, sandbags, and telecommunications equipment," according to the DoD report.
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In the end we had six armed security guards, sandbags, numerous security doors, metal detectors.
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Image: APShipowners place sandbags in front of their Daytona Beach store to protect against flooding.
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Residents and soldiers filled sandbags on Monday, bracing for the worst, CNN affiliate CTV reported.
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Along the Meramec River in Eureka, residents piled up sandbags to protect homes and businesses.
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Numerous cities were shipping in sandbags, extra water and other items ahead of the storm.
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For three months Khalil was ordered to perform various military tasks such as filling sandbags.
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To be extra cautious, the militants built an underground tunnel with sandbags for air raids.
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Some businesses along the main thoroughfare, Ventnor Avenue, put sandbags in front of their doors.
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He ran out of sandbags quickly, and sand was in short supply, too, he said.
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Helicopters are common sights, as are used sandbags and plastic bags signaling dry gas pumps.
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The exit on the American side was hidden by hundreds of sandbags, the authorities said.
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During previous court hearings, two boys admitted to throwing two different sandbags, the Blade reported.
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Some colleagues came around to fill sandbags and put it around the house to any floodwaters.
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In Leon County, which includes the state capital of Tallahassee, more than 30,000 sandbags were distributed.
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Houston's Zoo stacked sandbags and left a "ride-out" crew to care for its 6,000 animals.
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State governments stockpiled sandbags, pumps and generators, in case there's flooding or the power goes out.
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To protect her multimedia business, she placed sandbags against office shutters and covered computers with plastic.
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Everywhere are piles of sandbags that can offer protection from airstrikes as well as restricting movements.
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This wall is made up of sandbags, barrels filled with dirt, cement walls, and barbed wire.
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Alberto Moreno, 34, piled sandbags outside his home on Friday after refusing to leave the area.
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Some residents in coastal communities were offered sandbags to prepare for flooding in low-lying areas.
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But Ms. Gower assured him on Monday that she had set out sandbags and was prepared.
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Tar-soaked sandbags, tar-soaked palm fronds, tar-soaked trees and trash littered the water's edge.
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NextDoor was soon filled with posts from people asking for sandbags and help for the stranded.
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They also went to the Bahamas early to help put up sandbags and board up windows.
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Farthest away from the soldiers, but closest to the main road, it was lined with sandbags.
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I wore it while I ran, rode a bike, and slammed sandbags on the gym floor.
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"We were just thinking we were going to be up all night delivering sandbags," Juarez said.
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We turned onto a narrow lane hemmed in on both sides by sandbags and blast wall.
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On Tuesday, residents scrambled to fortify their homes with sandbags, but it was too late for some.
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From Arizona to Utah, some residents filled sandbags in anticipation of heavy rainfall forecasts and potential flooding.
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Petersburg area of Florida were hauling out sandbags Monday to offer residents amid predictions of heavy rains.
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The ceilings are scorched black and barricades of concrete-reinforced sandbags still divide some rooms in two.
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Crews have also dumped "jumbo-size sandbags" in the adjacent Tabor Canal and raised Avoca Road nearby.
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We'd also use sandbags — that are really intended to weigh down camera lighting equipment — for bicep curls.
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As in Babaji, these sites often consist of little more than a building and a few sandbags.
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At the time, the MTA could only bring sandbags and plywood to shore up vulnerable subway openings.
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Workers filled sandbags along the river levee and procured other materials for flood protection, the agency said.
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The grunts in the trench had mounted the Hog Butcher on sandbags and they were firing her.
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Those sandbags are still in place in front of Hardin's homes and businesses — including Ms. Hurley's house.
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A boat carrying sandbags made its way not down a stream, but down flooded South Central Avenue.
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People rushed to get emergency kits ready, map out escape routes, fill sandbags and secure their homes.
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Cars line up in long lines waiting to get sandbags in preparation for Hurricane Irma in Orlando, Florida.
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Cities and counties along the state's coastal region distributed sandbags to residents as some businesses boarded up windows.
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Rhonda Wylie loaded sandbags into her car with help of firefighters Monday as rain bands neared New Orleans.
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Communities provided sandbags to home and business owners and set up dozens of shelters to house displaced residents.
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In Nicosia, the island's divided capital, barbed wire and sandbags separate a fashionable café from an abandoned bookshop.
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And on Sunday sandbags were deployed to deal with high waves that pounded television studios along the Copacabana.
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At one encampment, about 70 young men filled sandbags in anticipation of people returning to the protest sites.
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Residents are also collecting sandbags to prevent as much water damage in their homes and businesses as possible.
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One nondescript apartment building distinguished itself from the others with a pile of sandbags on the ground floor.
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He was in front of his school, which still has sandbags stacked in front of the entrance doors.
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Sandbags are piled on a seawall in preparation for Typhoon Hagibis on the seashore in Yokohama on Friday.
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Medical staff at both facilities crammed equipment and patients into the basements and stacked sandbags around the entrances.
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State agencies have already deployed personnel, assets and state stockpile resources -- including sandbags, generators and pumps -- to key areas.
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And in the Tampa Bay area on the central Gulf Coast, cities offered sandbags for homeowners worried about floods.
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The city of Georgetown on Friday was handing out 13,000 sandbags as the county developed plans to evacuate residents.
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Last weekend volunteers pitched in to help lay sandbags and clear out the first floor of Taylor Elementary School.
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The street was already lined with one-ton sandbags, and 210-pound bags were being used to strengthen them.
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It then detected sandbags near a storm drain blocking its path, so it needed to come to a stop.
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Those staying in place aren't taking any chances; they're filling sandbags, stocking up on water and boarding up windows.
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Some restaurant owners also have stacked sandbags and tires on the beach in hopes of shoring up the sand.
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Fire departments in both counties are making an emergency supply of sandbags available to the public at fire stations.
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The class combines yoga, pilates, kettle bells, sandbags and more in a room that reaches a 120 heat index.
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"We used to dance with 4 kg (8.8 lbs) of sandbags on our feet for several days," Way said.
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Store owners have boarded up their windows and left sandbags in front of door frames to limit the damage.
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A black soldier was lying on some sandbags outside a bunker entrance, listening to "Respect" on a cassette player.
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We were sitting behind a wall of sandbags in a fortified checkpoint on the southern slope of the valley.
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The city of Georgetown on Friday will hand out 15,000 sandbags as the county develops plans to evacuate residents.
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From behind sandbags and bulletproof glass, the Marines looked upon a desolate vista and could feel menace awaiting them.
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Apart from not having sandbags or a spike to weigh it down, it makes a good beach blanket, too.
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Austin Seawright (right) stacks sandbags in front of a closed store in preparation for Hurricane Lane on Thursday in Honolulu.
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They secured their windows with plywood, filled sandbags, and put up barriers to protect the bases of low-lying structures.
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The Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort gets ready to set up sandbags at the beachside entrances of the hotel Thursday.
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Yet few expected widespread ballot-fixing, as in the days when generals used to stuff ballot-boxes full as sandbags.
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NPPD said its workers have filled sandbags along the river levee and procured other materials and supplies for flood protection.
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The Sheriff's Office posted video showing rushing water, pickups stranded in floodwater and people piling sandbags to protect their homes.
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CHURCH OFF-LIMITS Big stretches of Sur are still off-limits, and police man checkpoints behind sandbags and Turkish flags.
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Marquise Byrd of Warren, Michigan, was riding in a vehicle that was hit by one of the sandbags, Korsog said.
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Local groups got to work ahead of the weekend, setting up sandbags for residents to prevent flooding from nearby waterways.
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All this in the two seconds before he got his head and his boxes down below the line of sandbags.
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And officials are distributing more tarp, bamboo and sandbags to refugees to shore up their tents before the rains begin.
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Base personnel and their families were working around the clock to place sandbags and barriers to stop the encroaching floods.
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City officials will install the sandbags as the first line of defense against storm surges in part of Lower Manhattan.
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Many users simply went out and bought sandbags to place inside the base instead of messing with the empty ones.
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What remains to be seen is whether trade wars and other economic sandbags will weigh down the M.&A. run.
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He said sandbags would be used to build a barricade near the crater to contain rainwater that might be contaminated.
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Its walls were built with sandbags, and the roof was made from what looked like an Air Force cargo pallet.
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"CSX denied the request," Britt said, adding that the company would not consent to sandbags being placed on the railroad.
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Stacked tires packed with dirt stand in for sandbags, but otherwise it looks like the Western Front 25 years ago.
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Flood-proofing a regular four-foot door would require piling up 250 50-pound sandbags, a highly labor-intensive task.
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In this case, the Google car pulled to the right for the turn, but then encountered a pile of sandbags.
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Concrete blast walls four metres high, topped with barbed wire and surrounded with HESCO blocks—giant wire-framed sandbags—surround everything.
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Texans along the coast are bracing themselves for impact, preparing sandbags, stocking up on food and water, and boarding up windows.
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In Florida, some local governments have already begun passing out sandbags as a tropical depression heads toward the state's Gulf Coast.
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It's a 45-minute HIIT/boxing class that has water bags instead of sandbags, which are supposedly better for your knuckles.
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Members of the armed forces have been sent to Tralee on the south west coast to build coastal defenses with sandbags.
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Throughout the neighborhood, garage doors were bent inwards and sandbags -- no match for the flooding -- sat scattered in front of homes.
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Carrying around concrete and sandbags, along with all the other activities related to construction work, has really helped strengthen their bodies.
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You can use this to build resupply stations at capture points as well as fortifications like sandbags, barbed wire, and foxholes.
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Hardware stores in the San Francisco Bay area are doing good business selling tarps and modern gel-based versions of sandbags.
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Their job isn't as important as that of the civil engineer or the people installing sandbags or the hardware store proprietor.
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Grass and flowers grow thick between the oil drums, sandbags and stacked tires guarding the old gun emplacements and concrete boxes.
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Residents and business owners boarded up windows with plywood and hurricane shutters and placed sandbags down to protect property against flooding.
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Barriers were set up to keep major roads from flooding and officials distributed 146,000 sandbags for people to protect their homes.
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Ferguson was in a US-made bunker -- a crammed space held together by slabs of five-inch concrete fortified by sandbags.
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On Friday, they put out a call on Facebook to ask for volunteers to help fill sandbags and plug the gap.
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The few shots of the balloon basket's interior shows that it's mostly filled with ropes, sandbags, and Redmayne's character's science stuff.
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Hundreds of sacks of sugar tower over a worker, recalling levees or even sandbags fronting the trenches of the Great War.
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He was known for his blunt-instrument floor speeches, sandbags of verbiage delivered with minimal theatrics and less ambiguity of purpose.
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To prepare, her family has put up plywood and shutters as well as sandbags on their garage door in case of flooding.
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Plaquemines Parish made sandbags available to people in areas not under evacuations orders, as did several other communities in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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In Baton Rouge, Kaci Douglas and her 15-year-old son, Juan Causey, were among dozens filling sandbags at a fire station.
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To cushion the wreck against a storm surge or hurricane event, the Parks Service had partially reburied it with sandbags and sediment.
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The Nebraskan National Guard operated helicopters for search and rescue missions and putting 56 sandbags in place to protect Lincoln's water supply.
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Sandbags and an evacuation warning sign are seen against the doors of apartments near the Tar River in Greenville, North Carolina, Oct.
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Shelters constructed from tarpaulin and bamboo are being strengthened with additional coverings, ropes and sandbags to make them more resilient, said MacGregor.
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To prevent car bombings and shootings, security forces place concrete barriers in zigzag formations or set up defense lines reinforced with sandbags.
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Mr. Voorhees, a retired welder, recalled being summoned down to the river to fill sandbags back when he was in high school.
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In Detroit, officials said they would ask residents to help fill sandbags after water breached a sea wall in a residential area.
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Work crews labored on Friday to install a raft of emergency generators, and the city began to hand out 40-pound sandbags.
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The only imported material was jute, in the form of long sandbags she packed with soil to make the tower's building blocks.
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More than 96,000 sandbags were distributed ahead of the flood, and boat teams and high-water vehicles were ready to be deployed.
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Marines fill sandbags around their light mortar position on the front lines of the US Marine Corps base in southern Afghanistan on Dec.
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"We've got to save our house," New Orleans resident Israel Freeman said as he loaded sandbags for his mother's home into his Cadillac.
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"I just felt like I needed to take all precautions this time," she said as homeowners picked up sandbags from local fire stations.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday activated his state's emergency operations center and ordered officials to stockpile resources, including sandbags and generators.
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He said those who face likely flooding have either already received sandbags to protect their homes or will receive them, according to CTV.
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Property owners scrambled to fortify their shops and homes using anything and everything they had, from aluminum storm shutters to fifty-pound sandbags.
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He said those who face likely flooding have either already received sandbags to protect their home or will receive them, according to CTV.
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He phoned a council helpline to request sandbags for his salon, Mamselle, as soon as he saw water seeping under the front door.
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This sheeting is held at the bottom with sandbags and attached to the floating collar, which forms a structure extending from the shore.
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Hyde Park is also being dug up, but to fill sandbags, and by the novel's end, enemy planes are circling over the river.
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After two years of debate, the 3,100-foot dune and its wall of 14,000 1.7-ton sandbags became the lesser of many evils.
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Inside were tents covered in dust—blue canvas turned a deep brown, held to the ground with rope and sandbags caked in mud.
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Sandbags saved some homes there, but about 10 were flooded, with one home getting about 7 feet of water, CNN affiliate KMOV reported.
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If you're going to use it in a more permanent location, you may want to buy some sandbags to weight down the legs.
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Mr. Cuomo traveled here last week as state officials rolled out bladder-like temporary dams to buttress sandbags that have been easily overwhelmed.
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Also, more than 100 fire stations in the LA area are providing sandbags for residents to use as a way to protect homes.
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If you live in a single family home or town home, placing sandbags in front of the entryway prevents water from getting in.
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Officials estimated 173,000 buildings including 1,000 homes would be in the danger zone and distributed 156,000 sandbags for people to protect their homes.
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Created by Elaine Cameron-Weir, they hang from the ceiling like ceremonial banners, held up by a pulley system that's anchored by sandbags.
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Television images showed residents in areas around Townsville, about 400km to the north of Mackay, protecting homes and shops with sandbags and plywood boards.
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Aerial photos showed entire neighborhoods submerged, with television news broadcasting video of residents frantically piling sandbags around their homes to hold back swollen rivers.
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In 2014, Khalsa Aid, a Sikh group, was at the forefront of providing sandbags and hot meals to communities hit by flooding in Somerset.
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However, the Google AV had to come to a stop and go around sandbags positioned around a storm drain that were blocking its path.
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Residents of the seven Portuguese islands had reinforced doors and windows with plywood and sandbags on Friday, and schools and administrative buildings were closed.
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We're in a mock-up of Kilmainham Jail, where the uprising's leaders were imprisoned and later shot, sandbags piled against the wall behind us.
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Workers stacked sandbags around the studios and tractors shoveled sand into protective heaps around the ramp as waves from high tides threatened the structure.
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They have to jump back and forth over a low rope, leap over a bench, do a somersault, and then snake through swinging sandbags.
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Every night, the Poles put up sandbags amid machine gun fire -- and it was horrendous fire -- to protect a narrow passage across Jerusalem Avenue.
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Entry and exit is through security checkpoints guarded with armored police vehicles and gun emplacements, with sandbags and concrete blocks shielding against any attack.
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One officer, wearing a T-shirt striped like an Afghan flag, stood on top of sandbags, trying to find phone reception to call home.
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In Tallahassee, where officials are still stung by criticisms surrounding their handling of Hurricane Hermine in 2016, the authorities distributed sandbags and opened shelters.
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Roughly 150,000 sandbags were distributed, and rescue crews with boats and high-water vehicles stood by in a church parking lot, ready to respond.
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At one stage, sandbags were placed on a wall which had a view of the window to provide a stable rest for the rifle.
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The seller is also providing free shipping as well as an air blower, ropes and sandbags to help you set up the giant inflatable.
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"It's like being stalked by a turtle," he said, as workers used sandbags and sheets of plastic to guard the business against rising waters.
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Chuck Richardson spent Monday afternoon trying to fortify a building he owns in Georgetown with large planks of plywood, sandbags and a rubber membrane.
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Easing back on a chair of makeshift sandbags and deciding what I wanted to think about for the next half-dozen hours or so.
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"We were sending soldiers out with no armor — heck, there weren't even doors — and guys were putting sandbags on the floor for protection," said Col.
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The 72-year-old woman and her husband Jimmie had stacked sandbags at their doors as water lapped at the steps of their back porch.
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Oil drums and sandbags, topped by a cushion in traditional fabric, gave fighters a firing position that commanded the souk corridor leading towards the Citadel.
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Easy to set up, the base comes with empty sandbags that need to be filled up with 220 pounds of sand to anchor the umbrella.
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After a couple of beers, the physical rigors of my weeklong trek started to make me feel like I had sandbags lashed to my limbs.
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In some areas, the distribution of premade sandbags to vulnerable communities has already started to avoid a last-minute rush if and when catastrophe strikes.
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What local papers dubbed the "Year of Sand" — referring to the ubiquitous sandbags appearing in front of the nation's doors and windows — was well underway.
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Emily Jones, a spokeswoman for Robeson County, N.C., said that dozens of volunteers helped fill 5,000 sandbags Friday in an effort to plug the hole.
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The city invited residents to pick up sandbags -- to use as water barriers at their homes -- from a lot where the supplies had been delivered.
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As in many other towns, people in Eureka worked around the clock installing flood walls, piling sandbags atop the walls and levees, and running pumps.
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Homeowners in charred areas were advised to take precautionary measures like stacking sandbags to divert the flow of water and mud, CNN affiliate KABC reported.
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Lugging two dozen car tires for the weekend course and filling empty sandbags with dirt in sticky summer humidity are also parts of the job.
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Firefighters in the Phoenix area are reminding residents they can fill up sandbags for free at some area fire stations, CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK reports.
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Its soldiers entered the plant, piled sandbags around the bomblet and blew it up — a harmless end for one early miscreant in the product line.
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By the time engineers had dammed off that part of the canal with sandbags several hours later, the water level had dropped about 10 inches.
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Just think of all the people who'll be hired to build the sea walls and fill the sandbags needed to hold back the rising oceans.
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Apalachicola, Florida (CNN)After boarding up windows and filling sandbags, residents took shelter Thursday night as Hurricane Hermine bore down on the Sunshine State's Panhandle region.
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Missouri officials stacked sandbags along major waterways and closed highways near the rising river, and Governor Mike Parson urged residents to be careful near the waterway.
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And for all the talk of e-government, the online response was glitchy, too: requests for sandbags on Leeds council's website were met with error messages.
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If you see a pile of sandbags along the side of a California road, know that they have been touched by the hands of our celebrities.
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"I'm not very happy about talking to you, so if you don't mind, I'll just motor on with what I'm doing," said a woman filling sandbags.
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He's spent recent days briefing local leaders and officials, covering the airwaves with news show appearances urging residents to prepare for the storm and filling sandbags.
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"Four districts could be affected ... The governor and local administration are preparing sandbags and water pumps," Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda told reporters in Bangkok on Tuesday.
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But their brazen control of gerrymandering has enabled them to position sandbags to protect the last few districts from falling as we get closer to November.
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Authorities say three 14-year-olds and a 13-year-old threw sandbags and other objects onto the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 on December 19.
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Behind the Element hotel by the Miami International Airport, a lake overflowed, sending water into the parking lot and up to the sandbags protecting the lobby.
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One of them, Liang Jiawei, said they intended to use the improvised sandbags to brace the glass windows at the real estate office where they worked.
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Mike Steele, a spokesman for the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said requests were coming in for high-water vehicles, boats and sandbags.
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Rows of green plastic sandbags lined the outside of each post and were laid on the roof; their artificial green color always seemed like an absurdist joke.
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In Forest City, downstream from Craig in Holt County, residents young and old hurried to fill sandbags to bolster their local levee, hoping to stave off disaster.
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"We set up a fortified room in the house by putting sandbags to block the only window and we removed everything dangerous or flammable," Abu Maher said.
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The local opposition council said it was setting up emergency volunteer teams in several districts to reinforce shelters with sandbags and try to link them through tunnels.
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Across the bay in San Francisco, Julia Strzesieski works for Cole Hardware, which has been selling goods like tarps and modern sandbags in advance of severe weather.
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Sandbags line the apothecary and hint at the walls that had to be erected when people shot into Black Panther hospital tents in the 60s and 70s.
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Missouri officials stacked sandbags along major waterways and closed highways near the rising Missouri River, and Governor Mike Parson urged residents to be careful near the river.
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The GoFundMe page is spearheaded by the Point Dume Bomberos ... who need the money to pack sandbags, buy pool pumps, generators, respirators, cleanup materials and other tools.
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Barricades have been placed in flood-prone areas to keep drivers from venturing into high waters, and free sandbags were available at fire stations throughout the city.
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With one to five inches of additional rain expected to douse central Florida into Tuesday evening, some Tampa Bay area municipalities continued to supply sandbags to residents.
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The prospect put a patchwork of local and state officials on high alert on Friday, as they prepared sandbags, assembled barriers and nervously eyed the rising waters.
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He tells the audience to lay in the supplies for fighting floods, because when a crisis hits a region, everyone is scrambling for sandbags, pumps and generators.
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In another emblematic image, a prepubescent girl strolls along a street corner, stepping alongside a British sniper, prostrate on the sidewalk behind sandbags, rifle at the ready.
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County governments along the state's central east coast distributed sandbags and many residents rushed to warehouse retailers to load up on water, canned food and emergency supplies.
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He was sweating profusely after he loaded the sandbags, then moved on to clearing items from his yard to prevent them from becoming projectiles in the winds.
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To reach their headquarters, we had to cross their former front line: a tall blockade of sandbags, sofas, shopping carts, and sinks and freezers packed with concrete.
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The county has assembled several rescue crews to save people from floods and filled thousands of sandbags over the last couple of days, officials said on social media.
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Coastal cities and counties distributed sandbags to residents as some businesses boarded up windows, and residents flocked to grocery stores to stock up on supplies, local media reported.
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Heavy winds gusting to more than 60 miles an hour made it difficult to walk at times, and tumbled over museum signs that had been weighted with sandbags.
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Flooding in Wilmington was expected to peak on Monday along the city's Water Street riverfront, where many businesses had stacked sandbags in advance, city spokesman Dylan Lee said.
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Anderson brought quite a lot of equipment to the White House, including a Nikon D810 and a Sony A7Rii, six lenses, three reflectors, and four 15-pound sandbags.
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Still, consider this game a solid proof of concept for hiding behind sandbags in virtual reality, and a competent first step in HTC's plans for exclusive Vive content.
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Now, displaced villagers camp in tents in the shadows of the monuments and, in the town, families sleep in bunkers loaded with sandbags to escape shelling and gunfire.
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Before Hurricane Sandy, the Transportation Authority relied primarily on sandbags and plywood to defend the subway from flooding and did little proactively to make the system more waterproof.
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In Kill Devil Hills in the Outer Banks, Mark Jennings decided to ignore the order, lining his garage door with sandbags and boarding up his home with plywood.
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They're staying behind sandbags, but their heart rate and adrenaline they're experiencing would, I would imagine, affect the speed that they're rotating that handle around to some degree.
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Hamza al-Khatib, manager of an eastern Aleppo hospital that has been targeted frequently, said its staff used the pause to fortify walls, windows and entrances with sandbags.
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Now, displaced villagers camp in tents in the shadows of the monuments and, in the town, families sleep in bunkers built with sandbags to escape shelling and gunfire.
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But somehow, he managed to get up and rejoin his crew, which was continuing to battle with 140 pounds in sandbags and a gurney that was falling apart.
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The insurgency has broad support in the villages outside the capital, and the road to Parigam was marked by the sandbags and razor wire of Indian Army checkpoints.
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SAFE behind multiple walls of sandbags at his airbase on Yemen's coast, a United Arab Emirates army commander points at a map of southern Yemen liberally covered in red.
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Meanwhile, just a few miles away from Landing Zone 1, a group of young female prisoners in striped uniforms loaded sandbags into the cars of locals, preparing for catastrophe.
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Teams of roughly 10 volunteers spend two to three months together on a given project responding to community needs, from park repair to distributing donated food and filling sandbags.
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Officials in towns and cities in both North and South Carolina were filling sandbags and finalizing evacuation plans, eyeing some rivers that are swollen by heavy rainfall on Saturday.
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"In Utah's most recent execution by firing squad, the inmate was seated in a chair set up between stacked sandbags to prevent the bullets from ricocheting," his lawyers wrote.
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The Los Angeles fire department has prepared more than 20143,22014 sandbags; churches and shelters have flung open their doors to the 22015,226 or so living on the city's streets.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Businesses in Thailand's southwestern Petchaburi province blocked doors with sandbags and bricks against possible flooding on Tuesday as heavy rains threatened to cause a dam to overflow.
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In Kill Devil Hills, in North Carolina's Outer Banks, Mark Jennings decided to ignore the order, lining his garage door with sandbags and boarding up his home with plywood.
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At the end of the project, she said, she will hose down the surviving structure and take away the sandbags, so all that remains is a pile of earth.
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While thousands fled the expected devastating flooding and destruction, many residents defied mandatory evacuation orders and stocked up on food, fuel and sandbags, drawing the ire of local authorities.
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According the Los Angeles Times, the self-driving car was preparing to make a right turn when it got a bit confused thanks to some sandbags surrounding a manhole.
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Little Rock mayor Frank Scott Jr. said municipal workers have distributed thousands of sandbags to residents around the city, parts of which were hit with flash flooding on Wednesday night.
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They increasingly find themselves barricaded behind an expanding series of blast walls, sandbags, razor wire, and checkpoints manned by gunmen, their worlds shrunk to small, dark offices inside government compounds.
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Volunteers are helping homeowners along the river and filling sandbags.. The city of Ottawa said the Ottawa River and tributaries are expected to continue rising over the next several days.
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More than 4,000 sandbags were filled and distributed to residents in a few hours at just one sandbag station in Ocala, in Marion County, NBC station WESH of Orlando reported.
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Shin's Levee Proposal for Louis Valentino Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn (2018) converts discarded denim jeans into sandbags; two prototypes — bunker-like walls of imbricated denim — embody the proposal's makeshift practicality.
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And while the mangroves and water management plans have helped, a 2014 study said the first round of sea walls, made of sandbags, had proved counterproductive and caused more erosion.
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The report does not address fault, but Google wrote that its car was trying to get around some sandbags when its left front struck the right side of the bus.
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He was so convinced, he wrote, that one soldier was going to kill him that he put sandbags under the bed, ostensibly to keep grenades from being rolled under it.
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Jodi Connett, 37, and her friend, Kathy Weir, 57, rode a golf cart to Ms. Connett's boyfriend's house, where they lifted a pile of sandbags and surveyed the soggy damage.
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Authorities canceled some commercial flights, planned precautions at rocket launch sites along the Space Coast and prepared to give out sand to residents for sandbags ahead of the storm's arrival.
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On Tybee Island, a Georgia coastal barrier island, authorities put out sand in a local park so residents could fill sandbags to protect against possible flooding in the marshy area.
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A wall of sandbags erected across Tverskaya Street in Moscow, by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, seemed designed to block protesters but turned out to be part of the re-enactments.
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Officials in far South Texas are distributing sandbags and rescuing residents from floodwaters as rain continues to fall after series of thunderstorms have hammered the area over the last several days.
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After attending KDI's training, he says he's open to using small structural modification techniques such as widening rain channels and using sandbags to divert water in order to cope with floods.
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After only months on the job, incumbent Pravin Gordhan has been dogged by controversy as the country struggles to overcome the sandbags of slumping commodity prices, tumbling exports and extreme weather.
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She lives off-campus, and after stocking up on food and water, she went with her roommate to find sandbags to line their first-floor apartment, hoping to keep any flooding.
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Officials in towns and cities in both states were filling sandbags and finalizing evacuation plans, eyeing some rivers that are swollen by heavy rainfall but not expected to crest until Sunday.
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Front Defense, developed by "internal startup" Fantahorn Studio, is a World War II shooter that places you behind sandbags to fight off the onslaught of soldiers with an array of weaponry.
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Common sense would say that you set about piling sandbags, but this would be as unthinkable to many people as resisting the depredations of Amazon by patronizing their local independent bookstore.
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Downriver, in northwest Missouri, volunteer crews and emergency workers were racing to build their own makeshift levees out of heaped dirt and sandbags in the hopes of pinning back the floodwaters.
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The sandbags once piled up in the basement — after a calamitous storm sent rivers of mud down the hillside, over the stage and into the dressing rooms — have been carted away.
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They were trying to get one last big order out before the water moved in, and they put sandbags around the biggest, most expensive pieces of equipment hoping to safeguard them.
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The soldiers appear disciplined as they position themselves on rooftops behind green sandbags, painstakingly watching the militants' every move through binoculars and scopes, hoping to get a clear shot with sniper rifles.
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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said heavy rainfall is expected to continue for about the next 24 hours and some residents were preparing sandbags to avoid any further flood damage to their properties.
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Sea levels in this part of the western Pacific are rising by 12mm a year—four times the global average—and countering them with sandbags, concrete and metal is a Sisyphean task.
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While rainfall was welcomed by firefighters, the National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for Flagstaff as authorities handed out sandbags to residents whose homes might be vulnerable to hillside runoff.
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Authorities believe the three 14-year-olds and a 13-year-old threw sandbags and other objects onto the southbound lane of Interstate 75 on Tuesday night, said Toledo, Ohio, police Sgt.
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Colin McQuistan, of development charity Practical Action, pointed to Bangladeshi families that need to spend a larger share of their income on sandbags each year to protect their homes from river erosion.
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In the accident, a Google self-driving car hit the side of a bus at about 2 miles per hour after it veered away from sandbags that were blocking its own lane.
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Now, with an inland sea of water surging downstream, towns along the Missouri River and beyond are stacking up sandbags and wondering whether their own levees could be the next to fail.
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Every few days armored vehicles would resupply us with food, clean clothing and mail, as well as ammunition, grenades, land mines, barbed wire, sandbags and replacement parts for broken or damaged weapons.
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He tried to stop the water getting in, using sandbags and digging equipment, but couldn't do it — and had become concerned that more water would cut off him and the other rescuers.
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MEAUX, France — Near the edge of a parapet of stacked sandbags, a test robot rumbles, offering visitors hundreds of miles away a bleak view of military life in World War I trenches.
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While his fantastical images, "a dead sheep" and the sandbags littered across his room that create pleasure for the reader, at its heart the poem offers a coherent message in his madness.
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Automation may follow certain economic logic, but only a total technological determinist would say that it is like a rising tide that cannot be dealt with aside from throwing up a few sandbags.
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CHAKMAKUL REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The Rohingya refugees who live in shacks clinging to these steep, denuded hills in southern Bangladesh pray that the sandbags fortifying the slopes will survive the upcoming monsoon.
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With kayaks tied to the porch, eaves and sandbags in reserve behind the garden shed, I am grateful to friends and collectors who are helping to re-build while I continue to work.
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During a visit to Clarksville, he watched people lay 180,000 sandbags and 4,300 linear feet of flood barriers, all of which was delivered by the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
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My friend and I walked out feeling like our faces had headaches, or sandbags atop them (and the next day wasn't super-fun, either), but the instant results were well worth the discomfort.
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Soldiers and Marines would pile sandbags on the floors of Humvees for the same reason aviators used to sit on their body armor instead of wearing it: Because death came up from below.
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Like local responders readying sandbags as a hurricane menaces their shores, financial industry overseers have been quietly drawing up contingency plans while surveying the expensive havoc a so-called Brexit is already wreaking.
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But as the seventh hurricane season since then approaches, the city is relying on something more modest as the first line of defense against another inundation of Manhattan: a row of glorified sandbags.
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Albert Bryan Jr. closed schools and government offices and said he would implement a curfew until Thursday, adding that officials would soon open more shelters and were prepaing sandbags in all three islands.
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Laidman, of The Co-operators in Canada, said her company offers flood-threatened policy holders CAD 5,000 ($3,800) upfront to put in sandbags, an inflatable dyke or other ways to defend their home.
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At Mary's, a downtown bar, volunteers spent Tuesday night into Wednesday morning working and sleeping in shifts, using sandbags and a water pump to keep water from coming into the front door, WQAD reported.
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Early Monday, Ronald P. Milligan, 74, stopped by a park in St. Petersburg where authorities planned to distribute sandbags because the ditch in front of his home had filled during the previous evening's rain.
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According to Google, the self-driving Lexus was preparing to make a right-hand turn, hugging the curb in the process, when it veered to the left to avoid sandbags blocking a storm drain.
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Prior to leaving the bakery, we covered all the equipment with tarps in case the roof leaked, sealed the doors and windows with sandbags to prevent flooding, shut the gas, and unplugged electric units.
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"All of us who sort of converged in the downtown area just immediately started looking for where we could grab sandbags to start to try and seal up the buildings and things," recalled Grubbs.
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Still, a state of emergency has been declared in Florida as winds reaching 145 mph near the US coast, causing a shortage in supplies as people hurriedly stock up on sandbags, groceries, and gas.
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An Eye of Sauron workout, drawn from "The Lord of the Rings," features step-ups (Frodo and Sam had to climb a lot of stairs) and sandbags (evoking Sam carrying Frodo up Mount Doom).
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The ride-out team worked to isolate the ICU from the rest of the aquarium by sealing off doors, putting sandbags in place and filling holding tanks with water in case they need it.
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Britt told CNN he and other Lumberton officials asked CSX, the railroad company that owns the track, whether it was OK for a crew to get on the track and put the sandbags down.
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In Clarksville, Mo., inmates are laying down sandbags in front of shops in the heart of the village, which has raised its makeshift levees three times just this spring and exhausted its 400 residents.
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While thousands of low-income people were left without power and healthcare for days, the Goldman Sachs HQ on Manhattan was kept safe by tens of thousands of sandbags and powered by a private generator.
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The TDCJ has also set up an emergency command center in Huntsville, operating 24-7, delivered additional food and water to the East Texas prisons, and delivered sandbags to the prisons at risk of flooding.
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Sandbags shown around DC's Cleveland Park station in a November 2015 Google Street View imageDC is embarking upon an ambitious safety upgrade across its entire system that will require long-term closures for many lines.
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If the local or federal government fails to adquately prepare for a flood, residents are normally left with the options of evacuation, or fighting a losing battle with diggers and a small mountain of sandbags.
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Many of the homes are barricaded by sandbags and cement walls and protected by armed guards; the residence of the current Home Minister of Sindh province, a few houses down from Hanif's, resembles a fortress.
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To the north in Georgetown County, water continued to drain into the five rivers and several reservoirs that run through the county of 0003,000 people as officials prepared to hand out thousands of sandbags on Saturday.
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As of today, temporary stacks of sandbags serve to protect the refrigeration for the meat market alone—leaving the produce and fish markets as exposed as they were more than five years ago during Hurricane Sandy.
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Television news channels showed residents in Petchaburi laying sandbags and bricks in front of the doorways to shops and banks, and authorities intended to issue warnings to tourists visiting resorts on the Gulf of Thailand's coast.
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The tide that is claiming vast swaths of their coast is becoming hungrier, and the community is vanishing, despite efforts to reclaim its man-made boundaries with garbage, and buffers made of sandbags and corrugated zinc.
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One factor may have been missing ballast: four hundred pounds of radar equipment had been intentionally left out from the aircraft's nose and should've been replaced with the same weight in sandbags, but apparently hadn't been.
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Television footage showed rivers filled with fast-moving brown water, but none had overflowed their banks as of Wednesday evening, although one low dike had broken and efforts were being made to repair it with sandbags.
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Now, as he stumbled through an alley full of twisted metal and rubble, he saw for the first time that the front lines, marked by a wall of sandbags, were barely 20 yards from his house.
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She is alone, and no trick-or-treaters have wandered by in an hour, the white sandbags of candlelight have burned out, and the renters have all turned off their lights, pretending not to be home.
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Officials in the city of about 20083,000 said that nearly 10 miles (16 km) of temporary flood barricades and a quarter-million sandbags had been put in place by emergency crews and volunteers in recent days.
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David Samuels, who helped evacuate several friends from St. John five days after Irma hit, told BuzzFeed News Monday night that the friends are hunkering down in a cement bunker in Puerto Rico surrounded by homemade sandbags.
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Cedar Rapids city workers, contractors, volunteers and National Guard troops had hastily erected a system of temporary walls, levees and 250,000 sandbags around the city over the weekend -- and it appeared to be holding, officials said Tuesday.
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The Google Street View image of the Cleveland Park station, which was taken over six months ago in November 2015, shows sandbags ringing the sidewalk—a temporary solution for a known problem but not a permanent fix.
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Captain Hussein Ali, a military officer from a nearby town, said soldiers behind sandbags had successfully stopped the car bombs from reaching the base, in an agricultural district along the Shabelle River, by firing to detonate them.
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He cited vulnerable New Yorkers being stranded without power or healthcare when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, while "the Goldman Sachs headquarters was protected by tens of thousands of its own sandbags and power from its generator".
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The Army Corps of Engineers is distributing 400,000 sandbags to operators of 12 levees along the Missouri River in Missouri and Kansas that are threatened by flooding, the Army Corps said in a news release on Tuesday.
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Along Boston's Long Wharf, near the Fanueil Hall tourist area, large piles of sandbags were in place around a subway station and a Marriott hotel, a spot that flooded with icy seawater during an early January storm.
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After a few more minutes contemplating the ill-fated house atop the mound, we make our way downslope to the beach, past hefty black sandbags put in place by the local government to keep the erosion at bay.
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In a California DMV report discovered by Mark Harris, one of Google's autonomous Lexus cars was stopped at a Mountain View intersection on February 14 when it needed to maneuver around sandbags placed in the right-hand lane.
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A closer look shows this is a city under threat -- tarpaulins along streets hide the movements of fighters from surveillance drones and sandbags outside buildings might offer some protection from a blast from the sky or the ground.
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Under the arches inside the mosque, an old man in a bulky greatcoat, woolen scarf wrapped around his head, stood sobbing in the dark near a shrine, a barricade of oil drums and sandbags still looming behind it.
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Surrounded by a net and "seemingly tethered" to the gallery floor with ropes and sandbags, "The bulbous and comical form of 'Maebe' is at once trapped and yet on the verge of an escape," the wall text explains.
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The idea of building low-cost structures of sandbags or soil-filled bags has been around for at least a century, and has been used in a range of places, from Africa to South Asia to North America.
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Today, Checkpoint Charlie, popular with tourists, is a replica of the U.S. post, a wooden shack situated behind a row of sandbags — and in front of a McDonald's — at a busy intersection in the heart of Berlin's downtown.
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ATARIB, Syria (Reuters) - Away from the frontlines, volunteers are helping in the war against President Bashar al-Assad by cooking, filling sandbags, collecting old tyres and digging trenches, aiming to help ward off his assault on northwestern Syria.
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Multiple agencies, including the National Guard, have worked to rescue people from the flood waters and more than 197,000 sandbags were delivered to Livingston Parish, where more than 20 inches of rain fell in one day, NBC News reports.
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Beside your soldiers, you'll also be able to start out with a basic tank and then upgrade the hell out of it, adding different paint jobs as well as extra flair like sandbags, boxes, and branches around the turret.
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In Corpus Christi, where Harvey could make landfall and Mayor Joe McComb has issued a voluntary evacuation order, Walmart shelves were clearing quickly, as the city canceled Friday's dockets in city court and provided self-serve sandbags to residents.
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If it does rain hard, authorities would use K-rail barriers, sandbags or wooden plank fencing to keep water and debris away, and to divert the flow, said Jim O'Toussa, a geologist with the Ventura County Public Works Agency.
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"It really evoked a lot of emotions and heartbreak for the people who are going through that now in Houston," Ray Gratia said as he picked up sandbags for his New Orleans home, which flooded during the 2005 hurricane.
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Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.
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Along Boston's Long Wharf, not far from the Fanueil Hall tourist area, large piles of sandbags were in place around a subway station and a Marriott hotel, a spot that flooded with icy seawater during an early January storm.
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The black-and-white film, emphasising the unforgiving slate of the plaza floor and the gaunt faces of soldiers hunkering between sandbags in the square's archways, reflect the solemnity and melancholy that seemed to settle over Madrid in the late 1930s.
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The city of Blair had raced to stack a mile of sandbags around its municipal wastewater-treatment facility, and Cargill ended up building an eight-foot-high, three-mile-long emergency levee at a cost of more than $20 million.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Young men filled sandbags to prepare for future protests at encampments along Gaza's Israeli border on Thursday, though tents were mostly empty as Palestinians joined Muslims around the world observing the daylight fast at the start of Ramadan.
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Up and down the Florida coast on Thursday, people emptied store shelves of water and nonperishable food items, searched for batteries, gasoline and diapers, and many followed signs that directed them to sandbags or the basic ingredients to shovel their own.
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He said the other instances involved people shooting crossbows in their yards, with the arrows landing on a neighbor's property, and when people threw heavy sandbags off the roof of a parking garage while people were walking on the sidewalks below.
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Through April and May, people who live along the Mississippi have repeated the same rituals that they did then, the grind of filling sandbags, monitoring the crest of the river and anxiously watching the rain, which has fallen at historic levels.
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Even the most basic robots perform tasks that are unintended by their creators; surely Google didn't intend to have its car crash into a bus, but the car still made the decision to avoid a set of sandbags, which led to the crash.
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The flooding forced hundreds of people to place sandbags around their property and flee their homes in small communities like Niles, Indiana and Marseilles, Illinois that sit on rivers, already beyond their flood stages, that were not expected to crest for days.
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Numerous power lines down Garvin County: 523 sandbags requested for possible river flooding Logan County: Power polls down, tree damage, damage to a barn Noble County: Roof damage to homes, power lines down, barns damaged So far, power outages statewide have reached 2,085.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is distributing 400,000 sandbags to operators of 12 levees along the Missouri River in Missouri and Kansas that were in danger of being breached by floodwaters, the Army Corps said in a news release on Tuesday.
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To shore up the weir, construction crews dumped 2700 truckloads an hour of rock and concrete slurry beneath the weir, while a fleet of helicopters dropped sandbags and rocks—in case all else failed and the emergency spillway had to be used again.
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With the possibility of 12-foot waves, the Coast Guard urged boaters to stay out of the water until Tuesday, NBC Miami reported Authorities were distributing sandbags to residents in St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay, according to NBC station WBBH of Fort Myers.
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An annual tradition of erecting a wall of sandbags around the off-campus house of Kappa Alpha at Tulane University made some people uncomfortable in April when members added Donald Trump's name and the slogan "Make America Great Again" to the structure.
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I can barely run a mile without feeling like I just ran a marathon and I'm one of the least coordinated people I know, but even I had a total blast swinging my hips to the music and throwing some sandbags around.
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Working silently, he rolled it while pressing sprig molds against its damp and malleable sides, forcing decorative shapes to emerge: sandbags, piles of bone, a soldier with a leveled bayonet, a Marine Corps insignia, a gas mask and then, at last, a skull.
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At the museum, the largely outdoor exhibit houses British rifles, American cluster bomblets, Italian and Egyptian land mines, rusted artillery pieces, and dilapidated Soviet jet fighters in a cement-walled compound ringed by sandbags, barbed wire and a machine gun-mounted guard tower.
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In the east, along a front that hasn't moved in years as politicians hash out failed peace deals, soldiers live and fight in a landscape of mud and sandbags, waging an anachronistic trench war resembling the conditions of the First World War.
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Until then, a big section of the Lower Manhattan waterfront will not have so much as a row of big sandbags to protect it, a void that has left downtown residents and merchants feeling vulnerable, Ms. Hughes, the former community board chairwoman, said.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the PATH trains, brought sandbags to the station, and left them lined up "as a precautionary measure," in case another break happens, according to Cheryl Albiez, a spokeswoman for the Port Authority.
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Local officials wanted to use sandbags to guard an area of track where flooding had previously occurred, but CSX officials balked, arguing that the effort would not work and would also cause damage to their property, according to Sadie Weiner, Mr. Cooper's spokeswoman.
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At the Bonfire Taqueria, owner Darren Smith, 49, said he was worried that the sandbags would bottleneck the river, threatening not only his restaurant and the jobs of his 50 employees, but hundreds of properties that are not covered by flood insurance.
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Government officials in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina pleaded for people to evacuate vulnerable areas, triggering a scramble for the essentials — gasoline, water, sandbags — that, even for hurricane-hardened Floridians, was laced with dread and punctuated with dire warnings from every direction.
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Towns and cities across the state were filling thousands of sandbags, finalizing evacuation plans and organizing rescue crews as they nervously watched swollen rivers rise near or beyond their flood stages, a week after Florence dumped some three feet of rain on the region.
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Homeowners and businesses across Leavenworth County, Missouri, where 81,13 people were under a flood warning on Wednesday, were placing sandbags around property as they have watched the river rise over the last few days, Kim Buchanan, the countys deputy director of emergency management, told Reuters.
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In the test room at Hilton's McLean, Virginia, property, on a sound-proof, wood-laminate floor, stands a large metal "bay" that holds sandbags, weight balls, a yoga mat, foam roller, Bosu ball, TRX training system and various other small pieces of workout paraphernalia.
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Sandbags will be available Friday afternoon for property owners who want to block rising water, Landrieu said, and police have stationed barricades or high-water vehicles at 20 low spots around town to prevent people from venturing into floodwaters and helping those who might.
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Homeowners and businesses across Leavenworth County, Missouri, where 81,13 people were under a flood warning on Wednesday, were placing sandbags around property as they have watched the river rise over the last few days, Kim Buchanan, the county's deputy director of emergency management, told Reuters.
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Drivers approaching the island on Route 72 from the west were greeted with electronic signs warning "Severe Coastal Storm — Be Prepared," and a convenience store near the causeway connecting the island to the mainland had placed a small pile of sandbags near its door.
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Sometimes the roadside grunts put mail in the sandbags along with the rock and the rumpled lists, and if they were dug in far enough from the road you had to square up, high on the mount atop the cab, where Vollie often manned a .
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"It's not that I don't want to be here," said Rhonda Hunziger, the mayor of Craig, Mo., population 230, where residents piled sandbags through the night in a spirited but futile attempt to save their town from the Missouri River after surrounding levees burst.
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Residents of Hamburg, wedged between the Nishnabotna and Missouri Rivers in Iowa's fertile southwest corner, speak with pride about enduring nature's whims, about living in a place where people volunteer to fill sandbags and donate meals and make a silly music video about a levee.
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While Tampa Bay residents are beginning the process of removing the sandbags from their homes and getting back to the business of daily living in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the city's multi-millionaire real estate developer, Jeff Vinik, is busy with plans of his own.
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There were the nine boys and men aged between 15 and 21 who were executed on August 6, 2015, thrown from the National Insurance Company building and other landmarks in the heart of Mosul, sandbags tied around their necks to ensure the impact would be fatal.
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"It really evoked a lot of emotions and heartbreak for the people who are going through that now in Houston," Ray Gratia said as he collected sandbags for his New Orleans home, which flooded from the massive hurricane that left much of the city underwater for weeks.
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What he was seeing at that moment on Monday was a group of neighbors using pumps and sandbags to keep an ever-rising creek out of Ed Martensson's house, which was so hemmed in by water that a 12-year-old boy was fishing in the driveway.
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Mr. Whitman's approach to the sprawling organ built from wood, copper pipes, plastic tubing, sandbags (among other objects) and a computer that coordinates the elements, was more episodic and noisy; Ms. Lavender's piece swelled into a warm, engulfing drone, in keeping with her sound-as-healing practice.
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Back to the analogy of the town facing a hurricane: We are in an unusual situation in which the local government doesn't seem to be laying sandbags effectively, and many of the local businesses in charge of the top priority response are moving slowly and failing to inspire confidence.
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Those images were sent to China and turned into a cold-air water balloon that Mr. Brar purchased and shipped to D.C. He took the balloon — along with four ropes and four sandbags totaling 600 pounds — to the site near the White House in a U-Haul truck.
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Whether considered as the least one can do with a writing implement, a proto-writing meme of Paleolithic descent, or a semiotic signal that a sentence has ended, a deluge of perspectives spill over the installation's conceptual sandbags, flooding the room with interpretive possibilities, the sheer variety of which seem uncharacteristic of the genre Kosuth has practiced for decades.
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His he named Hog Butcher, and his intimacy with her was such that, some weeks later, when the grunts mounted her atop the sandbags on the morning the N.V.A. finally came at them in person, a crush of figures like ants, innumerable, he almost snatched her down from the trench lip, fearful lest some harm should come to her and resentful these thieving bastards should touch her.
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Yulia Pinkusevich, born in a part of eastern Ukraine that is currently contested, created the massive and mesmerizing Silencing The Cacophony as she witnessed the upheaval of her homeland from California; the drone and media sourced images, in combination with dazzle camouflage and smoke which pours off the canvas and onto the walls, attests to the modern vision of war as an aesthetic event, while sandbags sit on the gallery floor, physical remains of Euromaidan and the revolution.
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And he made it to the hooch and overturned the toilet paper, they called them sweet rolls, gathered three ammunition boxes, and hobbled in his nut-crumpled state expecting to be hit and then to explode with all the rounds in his arms; and he was going as fast as he could, his eyes on the destination, the trench, to get behind the sandbags; but higher up, going on solid ground and running back toward the perimeter with the dawnish light, he had another vantage than before; and the light better; one of the boxes threatening to fall; and he tried to keep his eyes on the trench, to get back there; but he had this other vantage now, and his eyes looking upward squinted against the smoke—and that was when he saw them.
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