On Thanksgiving Day, 2024, Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years prior, the sandbag levee protecting his family home failed. When the rising floodwaters ...

Matthew Osborn watched from the loading dock April 30, 2019, as the city’s sand filled barriers toppled. Feet of water rushed toward the building where he’d planned to open his new restaurant, ½ ...

Backwater flooding happens when the Mississippi River is higher (about 43’ at Vicksburg) than the Yazoo River and blocks its ...

Six years ago, Anderson Jones had to flee the historic flood as it inundated his home in the Mississippi Yazoo Backwater.

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta’s Yazoo Backwater. It destroyed nearly 700 homes, wiped out an entire planting season for some farms and ...

The Mississippi is America's most endangered river, a national environmental group says, with more extreme and devastating flooding occurring as President Donald Trump calls to dismantle the federal ...