More from the sandbagging effort

I sandbagged along the river last night with a crew...until we ran out of bags (at least where we were). When they took us back to the Fargodome by bus, my camera finally started working again for a few pictures. I think it was frozen out at the sandbagging site, so I couldn't get pictures out there. They are arresting people for standing on dikes and taking pictures now too. Pretty dramatic stuff. The river was within about 6 feet of this guy's back door. Another guy had built a retaining wall several years back, but it didn't pass engineer inspection, so we stacked about 2 semi-loads of bags in behind it.

I think I may head back out shortly as they are calling for more sandbaggers.

The Fargodome is one of the sandbag filling sites. The bags are either placed on pallets for semi hauling or put in the back of dumpster trailers. Then, they are trucked out to sites along the river where our volunteer crews pull them off pallets or the ground, pass them through yards (or garages) to the river bank for placement. I grabbed a piece of pizza when I got back to the dome last night, and sat for a few minutes to watch the action. I think I counted 14 Bobcat Skid Steer loaders moving pallets.

Last night, the attention shifted a bit to a set of secondary barriers the National Guard was putting in place if the dike fails.