The Juneau Douglas High School hockey team spent the weekend filling and delivering sandbags to homeowners in the Mendenhall Valley, where a record-breaking glacial outburst flood damaged nearly 300 ...
“So it floods there.” Price was one of hundreds of people who drove up to nine county parks for a last-minute distribution effort by a local government that usually stays out of the sandbag effort.
"Properly filled and placed sandbags can act as a barrier to divert moving water around, instead of through, buildings," said the Army Corps of Engineers "Flood Fight" document. "Sandbag ...