Here are some tips for building the perfect sandbag barrier. Experts say your sandbags should be two-thirds full of sand, folded at the top, and then stacked like bricks in a brick wall.

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Friday afternoon, volunteers were working to add sandbags (pictured, above) in Coralville along a section of flood wall that has not yet been completed.

City Alderman Conrad Yates said volunteers have made almost 100,000 sandbags to protect Rocheport from more flooding.

on tuesday, these metro sewer district crew members spent time training how to install a new flood wall closure. ... a machine that at full capacity can make about 1200 sandbags an hour.

Of that total, the city of Fargo took 80,000 sandbags, Cass County took 115,000 for flooding in rural areas and West Fargo had 5,000, according to Cass County Engineer Jason Benson.

OLCOTT, N.Y. — Addressing the on-going threat of flooding from the rising waters of Lake Ontario, Governor Andrew Cuomo told residents who live along the shoreline to "hope for the best, but ...