Inventor says he's built a better sandbag

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Any bets on how long it takes FEMA to determine that neither of these methods are "feasible"?
(Unless Halliburton comes up with a similar product, of course.)

"CLARKSVILLE, Mo. - Sitting at the corner of Howard Street and Highway 79 is a plywood shipping crate that inventor Al Arellanes says holds the answer to future battles against floods along the Mississippi River and elsewhere.

“It deploys in one second,” Arellanes said of his product, known as RDFW, for Rapid Deployment Flood Wall, and manufactured by Geocell, his San Francisco-based company.

The company’s claims raise eyebrows in flood-prevention circles, where the standard method of holding back floodwaters remains sandbagging, a painstakingly slow process that requires massive amounts of labor to fill, carry and place each 30- to 40-pound bag.

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Turns out RDFW is not alone in Clarksville. Metalith, a competitor's product, is an interlocking aluminum-sided barrier that is filled with sand. It is being used to protect buildings surrounding a makeshift drainage pond on one downtown street..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25301200/