THE GREEN PEARL CAPER by Phyllis Entis5/27/2023 So we got some bags and headed to the nearest fire station that had sand available. But it was suggested that doubling up super strong reinforced black trash bags would do just as well. Volusia County has several places where you can fill sandbags, but when we went to the store to get some empty sandbags yesterday it turned out nobody had any available. Fortunately, our front door is raised up about two feet, so hopefully that won’t be an issue. However, there is a drainage canal right next to our place, and even though it has pretty steep banks, with all the rain that is predicted from Hurricane Dorian, I wanted to get some sandbags for the front of our garage, which is closest to the canal, and also my office door, which is at ground-level. Our house is located 800 yards from the Intercoastal Waterway, and according to the people who have lived here a lot longer than we have, no storm surge has ever brought water within several blocks of our house. But unlike those loafers I knew of back in my Army days, we were actually working! And hard enough to break a sweat, too! Yesterday Miss Terry and I spent some time hanging out with some sandbaggers and did a little sandbagging ourselves. When I was in the Army a lifetime ago we had a term for somebody who always found a way to escape work, or who did just enough to get by but not a bit more.
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