FOUND! Cargo Containers for the Levees...

[leftchick]

Weren't they saying these might work on the levees? Well here are a whole slew of them....



Cargo containers lay where they were tossed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans August 31, 2005. Hellish scenes of death, damage, and chaos wracked the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday as overwhelmed authorities tried to rescue the living and count the dead amid the destruction left by powerful Hurricane Katrina. REUTERS/Richard Carson

[RobertSeattle]

1. Won't work

They are full of Halliburton cash shipped back from Iraq.

[leftchick]

3. I figured they would never touch them

corporate property dontcha know...



what a waste

[YDogg]

2. Now all they need to do is fill them with sand ...

... from what they said earlier. This/these levee break(s) are a nightmare. It sounds as if they have some ideas, but a shortage of ways to implement the possible solution.

[Drewskie]

4. !

If you fill that with sand it will weigh more than the 15,000 sand bags they already are using. Sand is frickin heavy. I doubt a chopper can lift much more than 15,000. And that's the only way they can approach the breach: via chopper.

[YDogg]

6. I realize they would be monstrously heavy ...

... I heard speculation earlier today that this was one of the potential solutions being examined.

I think I read this afternoon that 5,000 pounds of sand would be about the size of a refrigerator. An enormous weight for the volume.

[ET Awful]

7. A Chinook has a carrying capacity of 26,000 pounds or so

http://www.army.mil/fact_files_site/chinook/

[XNASA]

5. They can use them BUT...................

"They'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Corporation."