A friend and I spent an evening over at the Public Works building as part of the volunteer effort to fill sandbags for the city and emergency workers to deliver to endangered homes.
Quite the workout, but it felt good to help.





New waist-high piles of sand were delivered by front-end loaders about every 20 minutes.





Groups went to work on the piles dividing up the duties of shoveling, bagging, zip-tying, and stacking.



As soon as the pickups and dump trucks had delivered their bags to the flooded areas, they were back for more. We would immediately change gears and make loading the trucks the priority. Small dumpers like these were turned around in about5 minutes by passing bags alongfire-brigade style so no one had to carry them. Bigger trucks took a bit longer.



The Plainfield Emergency Management Agency coordinated the effort. The Salvation Army was there with water burgers and doughnuts for the volunteers. Great group to work with.