Brothers Build Clever System to Keep Their Family Home Dry While Everything Around It Floods

Brothers Build Clever System to Keep Their Family Home Dry While Everything Around It Floods "I’ll build it 30 feet tall if I got to." Levee Johnston A man and his brother in western Tennessee deployed a clever system to save their family home from devastating river surges triggered by a catastrophic storm earlier this month. As the Washington Post reports, farmers Tucker Humphrey and his brother Justin constructed levees with an excavator that saved the house from flooding. Dazzling aerial footage of the flood shows the home and its surrounding rectangular property virtually untouched by the brown floodwater that has engulfed everything else in the region. The idea of constructing a levee, a technique that humans have known about and deployed for many thousands of years, was passed down from the two brothers' father, who died several years ago, according to WaPo. "Just normal things around here," Tucker Humphrey told the newspaper. "Doing what we have to do to save the house." ... Read full article.