Across Florida, residents are rushing to fill sandbags and haul them back to their homes in the hopes of keeping the floodwaters out before Hurricane Milton brings a 12-foot storm surge and up to 15 ...

This home at Debordieu Beach, SC, is being protected by a wall of sand bags. Critics say that’s against state policy and bad for the beach. Photo courtesy S.C. Department of Health and Environmental ...

Students from the Sedro-Woolley, Burlington-Edison and Mount Vernon school districts got a lesson in building a proper sandbag wall Thursday at Dike District 12 headquarters. The students were trained ...

A wall of sandbags outside Mike Clark’s home in Montecito weren’t enough to keep storm runoff out of the house on upper San Ysidro Road on Saturday night. Credit: Mike Clark photo Michael Clark has ...