Sentences with phrase «sandbags in»

@Jon Holdman I hope you are able to get the sandbags in place and not have any further basement flooding issues.

«But the gallery itself was hit hard,» he said, despite his having piled up sandbags in the hope of keeping the water out.

Though the glass doors at the entrance, one can see further sandbags in the main foyer and lower gallery spaces that are ostensibly shoring up the walls of the museum.

Sandbags in the Archipelago The Best American Travel Writing 2004 On a remote South Pacific island, Heather Eliot meets a man and explores the fine line between fantasy and reality.

This is probably the one people may not think is very hard due to the fact most My Mad Methods readers use sandbags in some form or another currently.

The district has spent the last few days placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and making sure computer labs are protected.

The Brevard school district will spend the upcoming days preparing its 80 or so facilities throughout the county, placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, closing storm shutters, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and protecting computers.

However the win came under a bit of a shadow as many suspected the team of heavily sandbagging in the run - up to the race in order to avoid being slowed down by the balance of performance (BOP) adjustments which are in place to keep the GT category close.

In fact, it was so good that it wouldn't be a surprise if the team tried to sandbag in testing, but failed because the drivers found it impossible to drive that slowly.

Put your sandbag in front of you and place your feet shoulder width apart.

You hold a light weight or small sandbag in one hand above your head.

A key aspect of the movement is called the «Scoop;» this is the part of the movement that allows you to fluidly catch the sandbag in the crook of your arms by scooping it up.

Step 1: Place your sandbag in between your feet with your legs shoulder width apart.

This is one rep.. As you come into center do another around the world with sandbag, this time circling head with sandbag in the opposite direction and then do a side lunge with the opposite leg that you used for the first rep. Continue with these movements, alternating sides for each rep.

For the next rep swing the sandbag in the same manner but in the opposite direction as you lunge back with the other leg, and again reverse movements coming back to your start position.

Hold the Sandbag in the racked position; the same position that you would begin a Zercher Squat.

Step 1: Set the sandbag in between your legs, parallel to your feet.

Not exact matches

Osry and other succession experts point out that families are often sandbagged because they've failed to plan well in advance for a generational transition by creating an orderly, formal and, most importantly, consensual process to see it through.

For an additional $ 45, you can book a private gym in your hotel room, reports CNBC's Diana Olick, with a look at the crazy steel contraption that holds weights, sandbags, yoga mats and more.

After Obama sandbagged TransCanada, and all the Alberta producers that were going to supply it, I wouldn't want to be a U.S. pipeline company looking for regulatory approval in Canada these days

The majority of schools were equipped with either impact - resistant windows or built - in storm shutters, and sandbags were placed around vulnerable areas.

Military convoys and motorcycles circle while soldiers keep wary watch behind sandbag checkpoints or patrol with faces covered by balaclavas and rifles in hand.

HAWESVILLE, Ky. — When Bill Hughes went to fight in Iraq in 2003, members of his Army unit lined their vehicles with scrap metal, sandbags and bulletproof vests to protect themselves from roadside bombs.

I had in the past put up sandbags to protect our house.

You are in a bunker in downtown Athens, binoculars propped on sandbags.

The Clark's Floodplain project used sandbags and an aquadam (inflatable dam, pictured above) to retain water in the target areas.

Breastfeeding or The bite in the wall, the nipple on the nose, the pez dispenser, water balloon, and the understuffed sandbag

Large portable water pumps have been installed and a sandbag berm is currently lining the creek behind many homes in the area.

In the report, Sir Michael also claims there is no evidence that sandbags work in holding back flood waterIn the report, Sir Michael also claims there is no evidence that sandbags work in holding back flood waterin holding back flood waters.

At the Governor's direction, 365,000 sandbags have been deployed to the region and are ready for placement in lower elevation areas.

In some areas, sandbags have been pre-positioned in locations that have previously experienced flooding in the past few days and weekIn some areas, sandbags have been pre-positioned in locations that have previously experienced flooding in the past few days and weekin locations that have previously experienced flooding in the past few days and weekin the past few days and weeks.

All told, 365,000 sandbags were deployed to the region and placed in lower - elevation areas.

In addition, those who are not able to visit the Emergency Response Mobile Command Center can call the Lake Ontario Flood Assistance Hotline at 1-866-244-3839, seven days a week, from 8 a.m. through 8 p.m. for help with insurance - related issues, assistance with flood mitigation measures such as sandbags, and for technical guidance regarding on - site repairs to their property.

Gibson, when push comes to shove, will hew to the Republican line — which, in the past two years, has been solely obstructive toward any progress in government, sandbagging for primarily political reasons the recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s.

The Liberal Party appears to have engaged in «sandbagging», concentrating its campaign on keeping the rising Labor electoral flood out of its marginal seats of Boothby and Sturt.

The Park Place substation on Water Street in Long Beach, which Cuomo visited Friday, serves about 9,300 homes and businesses and, in anticipation of Sandy, was protected by a temporary wall of sandbags around key equipment.

Bellone watched workers in earthmovers fill huge, interwoven sandbags (known as «geocubes») to start shoring up a beach where stray pilings are all that remain of a boardwalk.

Sandbags were stacked around the buildings in preparation, and maintenance workers were on call.

In the 1930s and 1940s, when countries were racing to Antarctica to claim their own pie slice, Hitler even sent planes down during the height of World War II, so that Germany did not miss out and so that Germany would get a claim as well; they marked off its pie slice with Swastika - marked sandbags.

Lines for sandbags stretched outside relief centers, which were filled to capacity with people left homeless, and troops trucked in fresh food, water, and emergency supplies to a city the size of Houston.

Boom most often looks like huge, floating sandbags strung together in a line, and either absorbs oil or deflects it toward a collection point.

One night shift MP, Ken Davis, later reported how dehumanization had been bred into their thinking: «As soon as we'd have prisoners come in, sandbags instantly on their head.

Emergency personnel are piling sandbags around facilities in hopes of keeping them dry during the expected crest over the weekend.

Detecting a pile of sandbags surrounding a storm drain in its path, the car moved into the center lane to avoid the hazard.

Statement on behalf of Climate Action Network Europe, Carbon Market Watch, European Environmental Bureau, Sandbag, Transport & Environment, and WWF European Policy Office EU governments must step back from irreparably weakening Europe's biggest climate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended in deadlock...

Standing in fifth place after yesterday's sandbag challenge (moving a total of 480 pounds of sandbags down, across and up the StubHub arena, with a cap of 15 minutes), this UK resident has made it clear she's a force to be reckoned with.

The heavy sandbag should have a place in every MMA workout.

Functional exercises like walking, sprinting, etc are free and you can even lift weights with sandbags or homemade objects or make a pull - up bar in your home (I use this one).

Begin with a weight plate, sandbag or weighted vest that equals 10 % of your body weight, then as you progress you can continue adding weight in increments of 5 to 10 %.

For the the Sandbag Shouldering perform as many reps as possible in 5 minutes.