Marc Crawford, with St. Tammy Parish, bags sand late into the night at the Parish Road maintenance building near Slidell, north of New Orleans August 27. One of five such locations around the parish, the crew has bagged over 8,000 sand bags and are bagging them at a rate of 1,500 an hour for parish residents. They would have been better off if officials dropped the sandbag filling and ordered a mandatory evacuation earlier.
