OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Omaha has scaled back its sandbagging efforts
after a huge volunteer effort churned out almost 100,000 sandbags.
Melinda Pearson in the city’s parks department says the city
opened a second sandbagging station Wednesday afternoon but it
won’t reopen unless there’s a huge need for sandbags. She says
volunteers filled 12,000 sandbags at that site in just a few hours,
depleting the entire sand supply there.
At the first station, Pearson says, volunteers have almost met
Omaha’s goal of 100,000 sandbags to protect against the swollen
Missouri River. She says efforts will continue there but will be
scaled back. For example, this weekend the station will run two
four-hour shifts instead of three.