For instance, there's a distinct difference between summer tires and all-season tire, sand many people don't get it, he says.
One of the worst hit areas has been Sandilands near Sutton-on-Sea where sand has also covered people's gardens.
And the sand carried by the people we met on the road was to help build a chicken shed.
Other sound but basic advice is for people to use sand to fill pools where mosquitoes might breed, to empty and bury any containers that might fill with rain, and to store water for drinking, cooking and washing in covered containers.
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Here and there, on narrow strips of sand at the lake edge, people lay on their backs on towels in the sun.
Projects outlined on the site include a map of places that need sand-bagging, ways for people to sign up and help, and after-storm parties, set up to raise money.
You're talking about sand, no roads, shelters that people are living in made out of local materials.
Well, it's that time of year again when people draw a line in the sand and say "either you're with us or against us".
The system can sanitise the waste of ten people in two hours, leaving only sand and fresh(ish) water behind.
The sides of the quarry, where people were illegally digging for rocks and sand for use in building materials, caved in after heavy rains.
If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).
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But he says the most intriguing thing is that people are almost putting their heads in the sand.
When most people think island, swaying palms and white sand comes to mind.
Most people are afraid to draw the hard lines in the sand for fear of angering a friend or losing a potential client or opportunity.
First of all I think you people at Forbes need to get your head out of the sand.
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And a lot of people what they do is they bury their head in the sand thinking hey, I've done the right thing so let them figure out.
Every year thousands of spectators gather along Manly's two-mile-long stretch of sand, 30 minutes north of Sydney, to watch teams of young people compete in a series of events known as Beach Carnivals.
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We are convinced that people in the 30s, 40s and early 50s have their heads in the sand, when it comes to whether their jobs or their very industries are going to survive.
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If thousands of people owned the team, any individual divorces would have been a mere grain of sand on the beach line of corporate operations.
Katrina killed more than 1, 800 people when it struck August 29, 2005, scouring Mississippi beach towns down to bare sand and rupturing the protective levees around New Orleans, Louisiana.
Another day, we followed the despotic comments and idle comings and goings of a middle-aged Englishman the island was heaving with English people who kept up a kind of running commentary on the temperature, the sand, the wind, and the waves, speaking as emphatically and grandiloquently as if he were uttering a series of deep, long-pondered aphorisms.
This part of Texas is in the core of the Eagle Ford s hale, currently the most profitable oil and gas field in the U.S. The people around here understand that the fracking of this shale, the injection of billions of gallons of sand-and-chemical-laden water, takes place 2 miles beneath the ground.
But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?
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