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 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) signed a record of decision, which marks a milestone in the ...
That old bothersome catchphrase, “better late than never,” certainly applies to the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi’s southern Delta. It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies ...
The Yazoo Backwater area of the South Mississippi Delta has suffered from chronic flooding for generations. Loss of home, relocation and rebuilding have become a part of life for residents in the area ...
The wreckage stretched for miles from where Chuck’s Dairy Bar once stood in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. About five weeks before my visit in May, a tornado had ripped through, killing 17 people there ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency held the last of three community engagement sessions Friday in Vicksburg.Details of the new Yazoo Backwater Area Water ...
Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Nov. 14, 2025. Find that audio here. On Thanksgiving Day, 2024, Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years ...