Sandbag Wall News Today

Relatives or friends. many more people could be affected if any of these walls were to breach. >> rick: people are being responsible, as that gentleman told you. a lot of people are also taking precaution to try to keep the floods from hitting their property. what are they doing? >> reporter: thats right. hear we are in downtown vicksburg, a city battle. there are little battles going on throughout the delta. weve heard of farmers who have built berms around their farmhouses or silos. up the roa...

You are seeing, they moved out their furniture. only the roof of what is a utility shed here, its about to be completely submerged as we watched the water continue to climb. and then you get to the school, and you can see the sandbag wall they built two or three days ago being pressed into service, and water up against the sandbags and its only growing here. we learned overnight that the primary gauge they were using to try and measure the floodwaters in memphis was not working collectly. the wa...

Its controversial. >> we have seen the water go down about an inch or so. it was just in time for the couple that built this house. michael and mary baldry. what they also built was a sand bag wall to try to keep the floodwaters out. this sandbag wall failed. the floods came into their garage and were just starting to reach the floor joist in their house when the levee was blown and the floodwaters started to shrink. they have neighbors who didnt get so lucky. it looks like they lost everything....