Flooding and Road Closures

Areas across Missouri have experienced road closures due to flooding over the past several days. Driving through water covered roads is dangerous, but not being able to use certain roads is also an inconvenience. Big Bags USA® has a solution! Keep reading to learn more about our temporary flood barriers and how they can be used in a variety of flood and water-control situations!

Keeping Floodwaters Off Roadways


Avoid the inconvenience of having to close entire roads due to flooding by investing in Big Bags USA® flood barriers for your community. Our systems are a fast and simple solution for containment and deferment of water. Keeping flood waters off the roads not only allows them to continue being used, but reduces the likelihood of accidents. The majority of flood-related injuries involve vehicles. We want to help keep you and your community safe with our innovative flood protection systems.

Traffic Safety with Big Bags USA®


Our temporary large sandbag barriers work great for keeping water off the roadways. They're the perfect solution for all your water-related traffic issues. Easy deployment of our systems makes them excellent for on the spot traffic barriers and emergency road side disaster protection. One system is 36" wide, 15' long and 40" tall. One, five bag system can be placed and filled by just two men in less than 10 minutes. There's no other sandbag deployment method that equals the speed at which a Big Bags USA® barrier can be placed.


Big Bags USA® Traffic Barriers in Action 


Check out this video of the Missouri Department of Transportation deploying over 9,000 feet of Big Bags USA® flood barrier protection to protect Route 65 from flood waters back in 2011:


For more information on how to get Big Bags USA® flood barrier systems in your community, give us a call at1-800-337-0537. We have Big Bags USA® flood barrier systems available for immediate delivery. If you're located within a 500 mile radius of our warehouse in Camdenton, Missouri, we can have product to you in 24 hours! At Big Bags USA®, we're meeting flood mitigation and flood preparedness needs across the United States!

If you have an immediate need for our systems, or have any questions for us, please Call us Toll Free at 1-800-337-0537 or visit www.BigBagsUSA.com.


D.R.I.P.S.
Disaster Relief & Innovative
Protection Systems, LLC
(573) 480-6699

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Location: Camdenton, MO 65020, USA

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