Yea, I read that story a while back, all that water/ice/snow in the cold winter, would suck.

When I first saw this photo here, a couple months back, I was thinking, hasn't someone invented a machine to fill & tie off sandbags automatically? I would think something like the machines that hook to the back of a dump truck to pave roads, only instead fill & tie off a bunch of sandbags all at the same time, until the dumptruck is empty, then hook up to another dumptruck & repeat...