Word: sanding
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...family are starting to call and e-mail. And I've received a dire-sounding e-mail earlier in the day from the disaster volunteer center set up at the United Way office just north of downtown: "There is an URGENT need for volunteers to assist in the sand bagging effort. Volunteers are asked to report... throughout the day for deployment...
...deploying" again soon - as I did on Thursday. Working alongside dozens of other Iowans - from the Des Moines area as well as from towns hours away - who felt compelled to do something, anything, my 16-year-old son and I spent several hours filling sand bags to try to support levees near a threatened north Des Moines neighborhood along the swiftly rising Des Moines River...
...going to tell my wife I spent the day at the beach," joked a sweat-soaked, middle-aged guy, brushing off his overalls during a break from shoveling heavy sand into orange bags. A father and daughter, an inner-city church youth group, brawny twentysomething guys and spindly-legged teenage girls, they were all there - scooping and shoveling sand from large piles heaped onto a residential street next to a small city park...
...through their mobile home park in Altoona; an Iowa City police officer wading through water with a little boy on his shoulders; an astonishing aerial view of downtown Cedar Rapids where downtown buildings look like rafts in an ocean. But mostly, my fellow sandbaggers work quietly, diligently, steadily, shoveling sand, filling bags, heaving them into piles and hoping for the best while preparing for the worst...
...hidden pyramid believed to house the tomb of the obscure Pharaoh Menkauhor, who briefly ruled more than 4,000 years ago. Known as the Headless Pyramid because of its missing top, the structure was discovered by a German archaeologist in the 19th century but later obscured by the desert sand. Authorities hope further digs at the site will yield more discoveries...