Amazing photos! Mississippi residents build homemade dams to protect homes

UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/19/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

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We've all undertaken home improvements but these residents in flood-stricken Mississippi have had to embark on major construction projects just to protect their houses and livelihoods.

These homes in Vicksburg are all situated along the Yazoo River, a tributary of the overflowing Mississippi River, and their owners have surrounded themselves with tons of earth and sand.

With questions over whether the main levees that protect the area from floods would hold, these farmers took no chances and have so far saved their homes and crops from destruction.

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Sorry for the headline change: UK Daily Mail uses impossibly-long headlines, which can’t be posted on FR.

[Jeff Chandler]

Every government agency from the city zoning department to the United Nations Environment Programme will come down on them HARD.

[freebird5850]

Wow, just Wow!

[Lou L]

I wonder if they conducted environmental impact studies before building those damns? The EPA will surely be interested to see their data—in triplicate.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Exactly. Good thing these people didn’t wait for the federal government to give them a handout!

[Lou L]

Sorry, “dams”

[Experiment 6-2-6]

so far saved their homes and crops from destruction.

Don't see many crops saved from destruction. =/

[Experiment 6-2-6]

so far saved their homes and crops from destruction.

Don't see many crops saved from destruction. =/

[thackney]

Being a foot short of the necessary height after all that work would be a bummer.

[latina4dubya]

omgosh! is this real?

[rawhide]

Amazing American ingenuity!

[Tex-Con-Man]

HOOOOOOO.LEEEEEEEEEE.CRAP!!!!!!!

That is incredible.

[rawhide]

Man! That stinks!

[mountainlion]

I think I would be jacking up the house 20 feet or better and fill underneath.

[dead]

One thing I love about having a Democrat in the White House, is that nostalgic notion that natural disasters are actually caused by nature.

Hopefully, though, we'll soon return to the concept that the president causes natural disasters.

[Cicero]

Good luck to them! they’ve done what can humanly be done, now let’s hope it works.

[Mr. Lucky]

The downside, of course, is that the government can more easily identify those homeowners who still have individual initiative and persecute them for it.