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    18,000 Pounds Of Sandbags Weren't Enough To Protect This Houston Home

    "We did all that we could, but it would never have been enough," Kristin Massey wrote on Tuesday. She added, "I encourage everyone to continue to give manpower wherever they can."
    by Bill Chappell Aug 29, 2017 1 minute
    Kristin Massey spent nearly $5,000 trying to protect her home from Hurricane Harvey. Her preparations included sandbags, waterproof barriers and drain routers.

    It took two commercial trucks to deliver the 18,000 pounds of sandbags Kristin Massey deployed to anchor plastic sheeting around her home, but it wasn't enough to stop the massive amount of water brought by Harvey. Massey posted new

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