{"id":4726,"date":"2010-10-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:34:54","slug":"stormtec-stormb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/stormtec-stormb\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormtec Stormbags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the Stormtec Stormbags at my local hardware store last fall.  Basically, they&#8217;re burlap sacks with water absorbing polymer crystals inside. You soak them in fresh water and the polymer crystals expand to create an alternative to a sandbag.  They&#8217;re lightweight (a pound when dry), easy to transport to the disaster site, and simple to soak and set in place.  I&#8217;ve never used them for flood control, but they look like they&#8217;d work quite well. When exposed to water they increase 33 pounds in weight in about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I have used them to soak up an intermittent leak in my husband&#8217;s garage. We laid it down where the puddle usually forms, and it slurped up all the water, keeping it in one place.  They  will eventually dry out if set aside in a dry, well-ventilated area, so they can be reused.   I put ours up on our plant shelf outside, where it got air on all sides.  I expect there&#8217;s a limit to their reuseability; mostly because they&#8217;d get really disgusting after a while.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"stormbags2sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/stormbags2sm.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"140\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Stormtec also sells door protection kits that will fit various sizes of doors. They&#8217;re expensive, compared to regular sandbags, until you consider how easy they are to store and transport and their alternative uses. If you have a small leak having a couple of these on hand is a real time and money saver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leak absorbing expanding sandbag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11408,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/11408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}