Sand Bags Were Not an Option
Most people use sandbags to prevent their properties from flooding, but if the meteorologists and officials were correct, then this was going to be a whopper of a flood. Sandbags can be helpful when there is less than a foot of rain expected to fall on any given day, and even in such situations, this method is only temporarily effective. There was no way that a bunch of sandbags would work, unless he had hundreds of thousands of them. He needed a better option and he found one in an unexpected place. But he knew the idea was genius from the second he saw it.