[dzJeepChic]

George and I participated in the Sunflower Flood Protection Project today. It was at a site I had never noticed before, where several old buildings owned by the ranger district are located. There is a house, a barn with several residences, and a lot of outbuildings right on the creek. The camp was built by the CCC project back in the early 1900s. Since the fire destroyed the plant life that holds back a lot of rain, the project was laying sandbags around the buildings in case the water gets that high this monsoon season and next winter.

Pictures of the burned area as we drove in:

Road to the airdown spot:

There was a pretty good turn out of volunteers:

The Administrative Buildings Site from the street (the old Hwy 87)

The main house:

The Forestry Service people taught us how to do a 'daisy chain', like they use on bucket brigades, to move the sandbags from trailers to where we were laying them. The sandbagging started with 6 bags wide on the ground, then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to make a barrier about 3' tall:

The main house DONE!

The Sandbag making area:

They fed us a good sack lunch, and we were allowed to take a look at the buildings we were helping protect. This is the back of the barn building:

Inside the barn building there was a full residence, and a small apartment upstairs:

A framed picture I saw laying on the kitchen table:

Inside the main house:

I think my parents had this wallpaper in kitchen of a house we lived in when I was little. I think I thought it was ugly then too:

By the way, the mine structures were burned in the fire, and HazMat teams are removing the old equipment because it contains high readings of mercury and asbestos. The trail is not going to be open for a long time. We asked if Log Corral Trail would re-open, and the man giving the orientation said that the closures area would start shrinking after more assessment is complete.

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Diane

[Desert 4x4]

Great Job to the both of you . And great pics Sandbagging is some hard work ..Had to do it in North Dakota from the flood of the red river of the north back in the 90's. Daisy chain is the only way to go

[Ladybug]

Kudos to you both for this hard but worthy work. Thanks for your energy, time, and sharing the info and pics.
smiles, ladybug