Brothers Save Their Home from Massive Flood with Homemade Levee–Father Who Taught Them ‘Would have liked that’

Brothers Save Their Home from Massive Flood with Homemade Levee–Father Who Taught Them ‘Would have liked that’

Stunning footage from the recent flood in Tennessee show a man’s property suspended as if via a force field amid brown floodwaters. The seemingly impossible sight was down to the Humphrey brothers’ homemade levees, a tactic they have used before to ride out floods, and which they learned from their late father. The farming community […] The post Brothers Save Their Home from Massive Flood with Homemade Levee–Father Who Taught Them ‘Would have li…

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

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 u…

Tennessee brothers continue late father's work to successfully protect family home from historic floods

Brothers Justin and Tucker Humphreys learned how to build a dirt levee around their home from their late father. Recently, they put what they learned to use during perhaps the worst flood their town had seen in nearly a century.