Close, sorta, but No Cigar!

It seems that my previous post was naïve, with my belief that the 17th Street Canal wasn't more than 50 feet wide. In that context, my barge idea wasn't bad.

Seems however, that the picture I'd seen wasn't it. Yesterday we saw on TV , with the choppers dropping in the first big sandbags, that the canal might be about 200 feet wide. It would take a really big barge to seal that.

I've heard that sandbags are still being dropped, pilings driven, etc. I hope they get it plugged pretty soon.