tarpaulins

It's logical to pick out geographic major events from current services and ship batteries, tarpaulins, baby formula and bottled water to them.

So I live semi-rural and it's hard to fathom how much plastic comes off disintegrated blue tarpaulins.

That stuff was as thick as a tarpaulin (for those of us who are younger, tarpaulins used to be made of fabric, not plastic).

CakePHP, or Symfony, or Rails, or Django is to web applications what paint + scaffolding + tarpaulins + masking tape + ladders is to painting.

Motorbike saddles, tarpaulins, seats and cushions are things I produce when tired from coding.

Ive been hard-stopped by wagon trails of shopping carts laden with old rags and garbage, being pulled by an elderly sisyphean figure cloaked in old comforters and tarpaulins.

I don't mean to nitpic this article, because it addresses a larger point, but this quote FTA stood out: >Hidden beneath tarpaulins and decoy construction material in the truck bed was a 7.62-mm sniper machine gun.

And perhaps, depending on how fast you can get enough sandbags (or just the bags; sand should be available nearby?), tarpaulins, and pumps there, faster than most other suggestions.

I was talking to a former navy Intel officer recently who told me about the former art of deducting what cargo was on deck a ship by the shape of the tarpaulins covering them.

Go ask them to buy the tarpaulins they were bound in, I guarantee you three things: they'll be blue, the logo will feature a laurel wreathe encircling a globe, and the first two letters will be U and N.

In the US, at least, city governments are spending their money destroying the tents and tarpaulins that homeless people have set up for themselves on public land, and on fighting in court for the right to do so (see Martin v Boise and Johnson v Grants Pass).

> The term homeless may also include people whose primary night-time residence is in a homeless shelter, a domestic violence shelter, long-term residence in a motel, a vehicle, squatting, cardboard boxes, a tent city, tarpaulins, shanty town structures made of discarded building materials or other ad hoc housing situations.

The brand is "Freitag" (which should date it for those in the know), and it's made from up-cycled truck tarpaulins.

I love the way the utterly iconic X-wing shape has been "hidden" under tarpaulins - and looks like nothing but a blue X wing fighter.

Nearly 480,000 people were displaced and 4.5 million "affected" by the typhoon in 36 provinces, the national disaster agency said, as relief agencies called for food, water, medicines and tarpaulins for the homeless.