Amazing Flood Pictures

Several industrious residents in flood-stricken Mississippi embarked 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.  While 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.