Finally, FEMA has an answer for us all:

[Benjamin Strange]

Originally Posted by The Onion

Bags Filled With Sand Still Most Advanced U.S. Anti-Flood Technology

WASHINGTON—Filling a large number of bags with sand and then placing them side by side next to a body of water remains the nation's most sophisticated method for flood prevention, a two-month FEMA study concluded Tuesday. According to FEMA's findings, floods—natural disasters that have occurred since the beginning of time yet still destroy hundreds of American homes each year—are most often combated by scooping clumps of sand into burlap sacks and binding them with pieces of twine. "Perhaps bigger bags are the answer," FEMA head R. David Paulison said. The second-most effective U.S. anti-flood technology remains getting in the car and driving to an area that is not currently being flooded.

I feel so much safer now. Thanks FEMA!

[doctorjazz]

Bigger bags. LMAO.

I love The Onion.

[iamlowsound]

I didn't realise until after I was done reading it that it was an Onion article had me rolling.

lowsound

[Stealthco4545]

Originally Posted by iamlowsound

I didn't realise until after I was done reading it that it was an Onion article had me rolling.

lowsound

Ditto. I couldn't believe what I was reading until I saw the Onion.

[Gard]

Actually, having had a pretty good insight to how FEMA operates in southern Louisiana (my bro-in-law was a contractor for them), I think this may be a spot where The Onion got something both accurate and funny, in a not so really funny way....

[MakiSupaStar]

Sometimes what is perceived as humor is just the very sad pathetic truth.