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A look back at Sandy - October 2012 One year ago the Atlantic seaboard was slammed by Superstorm Sandy and residents of the East Coast are still feeling her effect.  This "Superstorm" has been classified as the 2nd costliest storm to ever hit the United States of America.  Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin.  The states of New York and New Jersey were affected with severe damage and a storm surge hit New York City on October 29th flooding streets, tunnels, subway lines and causing widespread power outages both inside and outside the city. Photo by www.telegraph.co.uk Sandy's path and timeline Sandy started as a low pressure system in the Caribbean and intensified to a 115 mph storm making landfall in Cuba.  After turning north toward the Bahamas, Sandy Intensified to a Category 3 storm as it moved up the eastern seaboard.  As Sa...

Protect your Roads with the Big Bags USA System If you have the proper “tools” and resources available, and have an action plan, where everyone involved knows what they have to do, you can protect a long stretch of low-lying roadway or even perimeters around buildings in a very short period of time. It’s action time, your already passed flood stage and you have just been notified the water is still rising.You may have anywhere from 3-6 hours before the flash flooding will close down your high traffic roadways or other areas of importance. Below shows how to maximize the deployment times and save property from damage. 6 Steps to to Deploy Big Bags USA System to protect a road Step 1:  Load the systems on a flatbed truck or trailer. After loaded, head to the 1st location on your plan and start deploying the systems on site. Step 2:   While you are headed to the site, each member including the equipment operators,...

Big Bags USA Systems prove successful in fighting floods When flooding struck an area of Northwest Missouri in 2011, the Missouri Department of Transportation turned to the Big Bags USA System to keep water off the roads .  Crews from the Kansas City District, the former North Central District and the Northwest district of MoDOT worked together to install a two-mile stretch of Big Bags in mid-July on the west side of Route 65 to keep flood waters at bay and the road open. “Using the Big Bags in this case helped us keep the road open, which we know area residents really appreciated,” said Brad Gates, MoDOT Northwest District. Maintenance crews work to install Big Bags to keep flood waters off Route 65. Each Big Bags USA system weighs only 50 pounds when empty, but when deployed they are quickly filled with sand to provide an effective flood barrier .  After doing their job, the bags were removed within a couple of days.  All the sand was then recovered a...

When Deployment time makes the difference in a Flood With the recent partnership with Performance Plus Global Logistics and Global Tranz, the Big Bags USA system is pre-positioned to help your local community if a flooding event happens.  We have stockpiles of our flood protection barrier system located on the East Coast in Edison NJ, and in St Louis Missouri.  We are working with our logistics partners to locate even more inventory in the areas that are needed the most!  Having the Big Bags USA system pre-positioned means that we can quickly get them to your community, get them setup and save both lives and property. Big Bags USA protecting the Midwest Big Bags USA protecting the East Coast Don't wait until it's too late! It is common for some communities to wait for the last second to provide protective measures, or purchase flood barrier supplies that can make a difference in a flood. Some localities believe that waiting until the flood ha...

Partnering with Performance Plus for Logistic support Big Bags USA is happy to announce that we have partnered with Performance Plus Global Logistics for logistic support for the Big Bags USA system.  The Performance Plus Team provides decades of experience in transportation and logistics for our Big Bags USA shipping needs. Their team of professionals bring a diverse background in operations and account management from parcel shipping, LTL to full truckload and ocean shipping. Performance Plus has partnered with the most reliable transportation companies to ensure we can get the Big Bags USA system to where it is needed most! The Big Bags USA system will be prepositioning in locations near flood prone areas such as the Gulf coast, the Atlantic coast, and other areas near major US watersheds.  With Performance Plus Global Logistics, we can improve the availability of our flood protection system to allow even quicker deployment saving both live...