On September 1, 2005, helicopters began dropping sandbags into the 17th Street Canal breach, and sheet piling was driven across the canal at the Old Hammond Highway Bridge.

Yeah, right; GPs have been giving me antacids for years and, frankly, it's like dropping sandbags on Chernobyl.

On September 5, 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers started to fix levee breaches by dropping huge sandbags from Chinook helicopters.

At the crippled water plant that is the key to ending the drought of drinkable water, military helicopters hauled in generators and tractors to help pump river water from the plant, and dropped sandbags to help fortify the levee.

January - Missiles are dropped from an airplane for the first time, when United States Army Lieutenant Paul W. Beck drops sandbags simulating bombs over Los Angeles, California.

After a long battle, Chun-Li hits Bison with a bamboo pole and drops sandbags on him, stunning him.

Helicopters were dropping large sandbags made of strong, synthetic materials in the breach.

On 19 January he went up in a Farman III biplane flown by renowned French aviator Louis Paulhan to drop two-pound sandbags in a demonstration of the feasibility of aerial bombing.

The decision was made after a day of fruitless efforts to figure how to drop concrete highway barriers or huge sandbags into the torrent.

Helicopters dropped huge sandbags into a gap in the Industrial Canal, a breach that had allowed water to flood back into the impoverished Lower Ninth Ward.