Fire fighters in Franklin County are helping test a newly designed sand bag.
Sand bags are one of the first lines of defense during a flood, but the design of the sand bag itself hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. If you have ever had to fill sand bags, you know that it is quite a chore – they are very heavy, they make weak walls and are generally hard to fill.
But a California company called Sand brick, LLC has redesigned the sand bag to make it easier to fill and easier to use.
The new wedge-shaped, wide mouth sand bricks are bright blue and yellow and are designed to interlock to make a much stronger wall than conventional bags. They are also lighter – using only 20 pounds of sand instead of 40.
The sandbricks were actually tested in Franklin County by firefighters from Carrabelle, Lanark Village and Apalachicola who spent three hours building a forty-five foot long storm surge wall. The wall used 1,000 bags and 25,000 pounds of sand.
The bags were a hit with the fire crews.
The wall went up in half the time and nobody got their fingers cut and bruised trying to fill narrow mouth conventional bags. The resulting wall was also significantly stronger than a conventional sand bags wall and resisted all efforts of the fire crews to knock it over.
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