GUEYDAN, La. (KLFY) – Friday residents in Gueydan saw a couple helicopters as the National Guard dropped a couple hundred sandbags to protect the town from potential flooding.

Guard members spent hours loading sandbags, each weighing four thousand pounds, and dropping those bags on a flooded road way.

News Ten’s photographer John Weatherall shot video of Highway 713 from inside a blackhawk helicopter.

Right now, this road is all that’s keeping flood waters from breeching Gueydan’s protective levee just outside the town limits.

“Water is flowing through the breach and it’s filling up the fields that the protective levee is keeping water from the town,” said Lt. Colonel Bill Haygood.

Louisiana National Guard Lt. Colonel Bill Haygood said these sandbags will keep water from flooding the town of Gueydan.

“What we are doing is we’re filling in the breach with sandbags. We’re going to drop another hundred to two hundred tomorrow and that should stop the flow of water into those fields.”

Mayor Chris Theriot spoke with the Army Corps of Engineers and they assured him the levee is sturdy.

“He assured us that the levee will hold, it’s all good, and that he doesn’t see any problems.”

Theriot said residents should not be alramed by the sudden activity.

“It looks scary but when you have a structure like that that was breached you have to hit it hard and you have to hit it fast.”

Theriot said he is proud to see the citizens of Gueydan band together during this difficult time.

“That’s what’s unique about a small Cajun country like Gueydan and Vermilion Parish, when there is a disaster, such as this, everybody steps up.”he national guard expects to drop about three hundred sandbags on

The National Guard expects to drop about three hundred sandbags on highway 713 over the next few days.