The sandbags are made from burlap, acrylic, cotton and polypropylene in the following products; flood sandbags, filled sandbags, emergency sandbags, polypropylene bags, burlap sandbags, Military specification sandbags, and FIBC bags used for flood protection.

Floods are Unpredictable

Floods are a danger to people and their property if their warnings are not taken seriously. Millions of homes can be destroyed and just as many lives can be lost during severe floods. No one can control the weather, or predict the outcome of the effects that a flood leaves behind. Protecting personal and private property from flood damage is often the main priority of home and property owners.

• Keep up with the latest weather events. This may be difficult to do once the flooding start, so keep an ample supply of batteries, and a small radio close by. NYP Corp provides an updated flood map allowing one to track and monitor flood areas.
• Turn off the electricity, gas and water supply inside or leading to the house. Flood damage can rupture gas, sewer and water lines, and cause electrical fires, power outages and electrical surges.
• Protect valuable and sensitive documents. Most items like family pictures, tax reports, insurance policies and videos can be permanently destroyed, by water damage. Keep these items above water level, preferably inside a plastic air tight container.
• Plug open drains to prevent sewage overflow. Water pressure can easily build up inside the walls, preventing the flow of water. Too much pressure can cause busted pipes and drainage problems.
• Remove appliances from the home if possible. If removing them is not possible, secure the appliances in air tight polyethylene. Appliance motors are easily damaged when they are exposed to water. Wrapping the motor in heavy duty plastic and taping them securely can prevent flood damage.
• Disconnect furnaces and remove portable heating and cooling units. Electronics such as computers, printers and fax machines should be removed or stored in a very high place.

Preparing for a flood can be very time consuming. While the inside of the home is secured, the outside needs to be secured as well. Placing various size sandbags around the doors and windows can greatly eliminate or reduce the amount of water that enters the home. Sandbags are inexpensive and very effective, against floods. Contact NYP Corp by calling 1-800-524-1052 or by requesting a quote online, as a representative will respond and assist you with questions and concerns about flood sandbags and flood protection.

They are a wholesale manufacture company that offers the best products available in large discounts from their six locations.

Treated and Plain Burlap

Burlap is the product of choice to protect plants’ delicate root balls from being damaged or drying out during transport. NYP offers traditional burlap and rot-resistant, treated burlap in both heavy and extra heavy versions.

They carry bulk burlap and burlap along with other products for every nursery need, including: squares, cone-shaped liners, burlap rolls, balling bags and large sheet burlap.

Wire Baskets

NYP offers three different types of wire baskets:

• The Original NYP wire basket is a competitively-priced, welded ring and loop product.
• The NYP/GW wire basket offers superior strength and durability due to its continuous two-wire construction. This product is made in the USA.
• For the most durable basket, NYP partnered with BRAUN© to offer its patented, continuous-wire basket.

All baskets are available in a wide range of styles and sizes that are sure to fit your needs.

Twine, Ropes and Strapping

Every nursery needs quality tying products. NYP offers an assortment of products, including: high grade center pull sisal twine, poly twine, natural sisal rope, mule tape and seat belt strapping. All tying products come in a variety of packaging.

Ground Covers

Weeds and dry soil can become problematic in your display areas. Read a previous blog describing how to use ground covers and how it prepares your garden for Spring. NYP’s woven polypropylene fabric is designed to combat these problems and stand up to long periods of full sun. All NYP ground covers come with a woven green stripe every 12” to help with installation and to organize rows of pots.

Shade Cloths

NYP sells only the highest quality, lock-stitched, knitted shade cloth for both its durability and ease of use. Available in a large variety of continuous widths, NYPs shade cloth fits virtually any size structure. And because of its unique design, you can cut this knitted shade cloth without it fraying or raveling. Read how shade cloths can help a vegetable garden.

Stakes and Tree Guards

To protect your plants in the field or in the nursery, NYP offers both fiberglass and bamboo tree stakes and tree guards. Both come in wide variety of heights and diameters suitable for your products’ needs.

From supporting and transporting your product, to suppressing weed growth and shading your investment, NYP has the right products for the job.

You can use several techniques to protect your home and minimize the destruction and costs of repairs. Some of these methods are simple and only require a small investment in money, time and material.

NYP Corp provides sandbags, emergency sandbags and pre-filled sandbags in stock ready to help business owners and homeowners properly protect their property from severe flood damage.

Protect the Basement

Floods are serious and everyone needs to prepare for a flood by protecting their property before it begins. One of the first ways to ready your home for a flood is to inspect basement windows. Look for gaps between the frame and the window that will allow floodwater to pour into the basement. Repair these gaps or buy replacement windows. Protect any basement window that is partly sunken below the ground with window-well cover and a raised barrier around the sunken area.

Windows are not the only way water can get into the basement. Check your basement walls to make sure that they have no obvious damage such as cracks or loose mortar. If you find any damage, repair it with waterproof concrete compound or hire a foundation repair expert.

Make sure that you have a working sump pump. It should have enough power to keep the basement dry during extended periods of soaking rain and flooding. Consider buying a battery backup unit in case of power failure.

Keep the Water Away

The surest way of protecting your home from the destructive force of floodwater is to raise it above the level of the highest potential flood. While this is probably the most effective protection you can provide for your home, it is not always economically feasible or even possible.

A much more reasonable and affordable solution is to have sandbags protecting the perimeter of your home. Sandbags effectively prevent water from entering a home when they have been properly filled and placed. The best types to use are commercial-grade sandbags made from burlap or polypropylene. Contact NYP Corp and speak to a representative as they provide a variety of sandbags that are compact and easy to store until they are needed.

With spring just around the corner and the snow beginning to melt, the risk of basement or property floods from snowmelt significantly increases. Flooding can cause massive structural damage to homes or other buildings, and mold and other disease-causing bacteria thrive on wet dry wall or submerged carpet.

Protect Your Property

Protecting homes against snowmelt should be the number-one priority for all building owners. NYP Corp produces and distributes a full line of Military and commercial grade sandbags ideal for protecting against rising flood waters.

What is Snowmelt?

Snowmelt is the surface runoff created as the snow begins to melt. As temperatures begin to rise during early spring, the snow, which has accumulated all through the winter months, can melt rapidly and can potentially cause massive flooding. At least eight significant floods of the 20th century were caused by snowmelt; for example, the Red River Flood of 1997 caused more than 500 million dollars of damage in North Dakota and Minnesota. While snowmelt does not occur at such a large scale very often, it does occur yearly in localized areas, and can devastate a business or homeowner.

What Areas does Snowmelt Affect?

Any area that sees a large amount of snow during the winter can suffer from snowmelt flooding. In particular, the northern U.S. states are most likely to accumulate snow throughout the winter, which will then begin to melt all at once. The New England states and the Midwest often have high risks of snowmelt flooding as the snow starts to melt, and areas located in low elevations in western states may see increased snowmelt due to rising climate temperatures. Rapid snowmelt also puts any property near lakes and rivers at risk, as an influx of melting snow can swell the water levels above the natural banks. Floods can strike quickly, track and monitor your area with the flood risk map provided by the US Geological Survey.

Preparing Property against Flood Damage with Sandbags

During flooding emergencies, sandbags can be used to help prevent flood damage to homes or commercial buildings. When the risk of flooding rises, NYP Corp has emergency sandbags that are ready for deployment at a moment’s notice from any of their six locations. These emergency sandbags are professionally pre-filled and permanently sealed, and are ready to be used to protect property immediately upon arrival.

Property owners located in areas that tend to flood each spring can also be prepared with pre-filled or empty sandbags that can be made from a number of materials, and can be made in custom sizing for any type of property.

When flooding is imminent, NYP Corp can help by offering immediate assistance and dispatching emergency sandbags for residential or commercial flood protection.

The technique improved over the past decade. Tree roots balled and burlapped, with biodegradable, no-rot burlap, are now placed in a wire basket. The baskets do little or no harm to a tree and are planted right along with the roots. NYP Corp delivers exceptional and affordable wire baskets to nurserymen.

The root ball is constantly and evenly supported. The wire basket is handled instead of the trunk, and the weight of the roots is more uniformly distributed. The planting process is the same as a root ball without a basket.

Learn why removing the wire basket may damage the root system. A basket helps hold sandy soil in place including at the bottom of the root ball. If transplanted soil is inadequate at the bottom, the tree may go into shock and die.

The basket provides more support and stability for a newly transplanted tree than stakes. Stakes may need adjusting from season to season. Wire baskets eliminate the problems.

Extensive research shows a wire basket poses no threat to the tree. The basket openings are even and wide enough for roots to reach through. While the tree grows, roots grow around the wires. Water and essential nutrients easily reach the roots.

Tree roots may grow deep or spread out closer to the surface. A wire basket must match the shape that a mature tree root system will take. NYP Corp baskets come in three main types. The original NYP Corp  basket is constructed well. It features a galvanized welding ring and loop baskets. NYP/GW (Great Western) baskets are made in the USA. Two wires are used in the construction. The baskets are durable and offer support. A third basket design through BRAUN features a continuous wire. It’s patented. The three styles accommodate every tree root system.

Choose from Clegg wire baskets, Cone wire baskets, Optimal wire baskets, Tight Cone wire baskets and Truncated wire baskets. Star wire forms are also offered. Large quantity discounts available from six locations.

The wire baskets are rounded, slightly pointed or completely open at the base. Sides slant straight or curve out from the base. Angles and depths are appropriate for tree growth.

Contact NYP Corp, as they offer excellent and affordable nursery supplies. Their wire baskets are designed to reduce tree stress caused by transporting and planting.

The National Weather Service (NWS) created Flood Safety Awareness Week to increase the public’s understanding of the causes of floods, inform them of the NWS’s role in forecasting and issuing flood warnings and educate them on how to protect themselves and their property. Flood Safety Awareness Week takes place each March with varying local events and programming.

The most common natural disaster in the United States is flooding. States with the most flood related claims include New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania followed by North Carolina, Connecticut, Virginia, Louisiana, North Dakota, Missouri and Ohio. In terms of payout for damages, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania top the list with a combined bill of over one billion dollars.

Overland floods affect residents near coastal areas, lakes and rivers. Flooding in these areas can be slow or fast moving and flood waters often spread out far enough to affect people not considered living in the flood plain. This is the flooding that happens when rivers overflow their banks. Overland flooding also happens in urban areas when storm drainage systems are overwhelmed with rainfall. Learn more about the sources of flooding by reading the blog – Most Common Source of Flooding.

Flash flooding occurs in areas downstream from dams or levees, as well as areas that have received significant amounts of rainfall. Flash floods are responsible for most weather related deaths each year. These flood waters are generally fast moving and can carry large boulders and trees along in the current. Dry canyons, gullies and arroyos are perfect conductors of flash flood waters. Since these natural features are dry most of the year, residents are often caught unaware by surging waters.

Protect Property from Flood Water

One way home and property owners can protect their investments is the deployment of emergency sandbags. Sandbags provide a very effective barrier against flood waters. A wall of sandbags around a building foundation can force water away from the structure, reducing damage from both the initial rush of water as well as the standing water damage that occurs later. Filled sandbags are the easiest to use, especially in areas where there might not be enough volunteers to fill bags.

Ground Cover for Your Garden

Gardeners have two specific choices when looking for the right garden ground covers. Standard black ground covers offer greater heat absorption for early gardens, but burlap can also be used to detour the growth of weeds and help protect your garden.

Black ground covers typically prevent weed growth similar to burlap, but it must be removed after every growing season. Burlap is made from natural plant fibers so it’s perfectly fine to let the burlap degrade naturally within the soil.

Whether you prefer the overall weed prevention of conventional ground covers or natural burlap, covering the beds of your garden can make the entire growing season more productive and less of a bother.

Stop The Weeds Before They Start

In addition to killing off existing weed root systems, preventing weeds from the start of the growing season will make care much easier. Weeding a garden is a never-ending process for many home gardeners. To minimize or eliminate weed growth all season long, many people use ground covers to keep weeds and grass at bay.

In warmer regions, weeds can invade and overtake a garden very quickly. Both early and late gardens can benefit from the use of ground covers. A garden full of weeds is an eye-sore, but it can also destroy your garden by robbing other plants of water, nutrients and sunlight.

Tilling And Killing For Early Planting

Before planting can begin, you must prepare your garden area to produce the best conditions possible. Tilling the soil in the area is a must, but destroying roots of grass and weeds is also crucial to reduce weed infestation later on.

The best course of action is to till the soil multiple times while exposing roots of grass and weeds to the sun for extended periods of time. This will ensure you’re starting with a clean slate that’s free of troublesome weeds or crab grass.

Protecting Early Spring Gardens

Early spring gardens can produce a variety of crops that thrive during cooler temperatures. A ground cover combined with raised beds will reduce weed growth by keeping germinated plants from reaching the sun, but it will also keep early spring gardens better protected against sudden temperature changes.

Planting in the early spring has many advantages, but the risk of frost can make it more difficult to get an early garden going. Ground covers absorb heat and help better insulate soil. In the event of a surprise frost, the root systems of your garden vegetables are much safer when protected by a garden ground cover.

NYP Corp has been providing nursery growers with quality burlap, twine, shade clothes, landscape supplies and wire baskets since the 1950′s.

What is Shade Cloth?

Shade cloth is a simple knit or woven fabric designed to reduce the amount of sun that reaches the vegetable bed. Shade cloths come in a variety of colors and densities depending upon the amount of sun to be blocked and what vegetables need protection. Easy to use, they can raise the production of your garden and reduce your irrigating and fertilizing costs. It’s also useful in defending your vegetable patch from attack by insects and birds.

Using Shade Cloth

To use shade cloth, first determine how much sun is needed by each type of vegetable. Some plants require full sun, such as peppers and tomatoes. Others do well with a little less sun, including lettuce, spinach, cauliflower and most beans. Seedlings and recently transplanted starters do best with reduced sun until they are established. Sun damage can result in wilted or burned leaves, bitter tasting leafy vegetables and cause plants to “bolt” or go to seed prematurely.

A shade cloth with a 10% percent density is perfect for sun-loving plants, 30% density cloth is best for more sun sensitive plants. This weight of cloth can also provide some protection from the desiccating effects of wind. Cloth of 40% percent or more is good for green house applications. Light colored shade cloth will reflect more of the sun’s rays and heat, but expect higher temperatures under darker shade cloth. During the hot summer months, most herb and vegetable garden plants require 40% to 60% percent protection from the sun. Orchids and similar exotic plants require a higher percentage of protection, which may begin around 70% percent.

Once you’ve chosen the density appropriate for your plants, installing is simple. To make your installation even easier, NYP Corp offers the plastic locking clip grommet. The clipping grommets require NO TOOLS and locks into the position of your choice, thus creating the ideal tie down point for your shade cloth.  Other options include suspending above the plants using either wood, metal or plastic framing. It can also be hung between two trees or poles. To provide air circulation, be sure there is at least 24 inches between the plants and the cloth. Continue to check the height of this space as the plants grow. Shade cloth should be removed in the evening to allow for greater air circulation. Most shade cloth will last several years if used during the normal growing season and then rolled up until the next year.

NYP Corp manufactures textile packaging of burlap, jute, paper, cotton, feed & grain bags and emergency sandbags in bulk and sells them wholesale. Contact NYP Corp as they will be happy to assist you in selecting the correct size and percent of shade for your greenhouse. Be sure to remember the ground cover for your hoop-houses.

In some areas, levees and other flood control structures have been constructed but even these measures do not provide complete flood protection. The ability to predict floods is becoming more advanced, but floods can still occur with little or no warning. Sandbags can provide a barrier that helps protect your home, your business and any other property that might be damaged or destroyed in a flood.

Cause of Flooding

Floods are usually the result of large rainfall events, although they can also be caused by seasonal snow melt, tsunami, and dam failure. Hurricanes, tropical storms, large inland storm systems and winter storm events are the leading cause of most floods. Some hurricanes and tropical storms can drop over 20 inches of rain in a short period of time. In one extreme hurricane event, over 30 inches of rainfall was recorded in just over 24 hours. Flood conditions can be worsened by outdated or poorly designed storm water drainage systems, especially in highly developed urban or suburban areas. Depending on the area and the amount of rainfall, floodwaters can reach up to 20 feet high, engulfing even two-story buildings and tall trees.

Flood Preparedness

It is very important to be aware of the hazards associated with floods, and to be prepared. The most important flood preparation you can make is to find out if you are in an area that is prone to flooding. Flood maps show areas that have flooded in the past and places that are likely to flood in the future. If you live in or even near a floodplain, you should make additional preparations that include an evacuation plan and protective measures like emergency sandbags. Sandbags may be made of fabric, polypropylene or acrylic. Emergency sandbags are pre-filled with sand to enable them to be placed quickly in the event of a flood emergency.

NYP-Corp has millions of emergency sandbags in stock ready to prevent flood damage. All sandbags are available pre-filled with sand and permanently sealed closed with stainless steel wire ties. Contact NYP-Corp today and speak to a representative about protecting your property from floods.

Different Causes for Flooding

There are many potential causes of flooding, but only a few that cause the majority of floods. For massive floods that affect a large suburban or city area, weather changes are almost always the cause. When a region experiences massive rainfall or when it rains for an extended period, flooding can happen, and often does in these instances. This kind of flooding can sometimes be referred to as surface water flooding, and it happens when the drainage system in a particular area is inadequate for handling the excess water. Surface water flooding can also lead to sewer flooding, in which contaminated water from the sewer floods an area.

Those regions that have hefty snowfalls during winter will often experience flooding during the spring thaw. This flooding is more likely to happen when the temperature climbs drastically during the thaw. During the spring many areas are particularly vulnerable to flooding, because rainfall is often at its peak in many areas during the spring, and snow is melting in areas that get cold enough for snow. In these instances, it is the combination of increased rainfall and melting snow that leads to floods. All of this water collecting in one place means that nearly any body of water can be affected, so it is not uncommon for rivers to flood during changes of seasons, and anyone living near a river can experience the impact. Floods can strike quickly and without warning which makes protecting your property a difficult proposition. View the real-time flood condition map of US river basins, tracking and monitoring flood areas.

Flooding of the coast can occur during powerful storms that occur over the ocean, and also when the ocean hits high tide. This combination can be common in coastal areas and often can cause large amounts of water to end up on dry land.

Areas that contain aquifers can also experience flooding. When these become overwhelmed, water can actually rise from the ground below and flood the surface land above. These events are also caused by increased rainfall that seeps into the ground and infiltrates the porous aquifers, causing the water to well up. Often people living in low-lying areas can experience greater flooding from both surface water flooding and groundwater flooding. For those living in lower areas, homeowners can prepare for a flood with the uses of a sandbag barrier for flood protection. Contact NYP-Corp today as they have emergency sandbags in stock ready to help business owners and homeowners properly protect their property from severe flood damage.