field. you can see about a thousand acres of it planted out here. but you can see it's nothing but water about as far as the eye can see. and this is the levee as seen by the water's side. what they've done is sometimes the wind blows so strong across the cotton field, you get white caps. this is their son todd's house. as you can see, his levee is a lot steeper and higher, which seems it's a lot deeper down here. but this is that amazing house shot that you see from up above, that lone house standing up against the flood. >> this is our water pump, to pump water. this is the low spot inside the levee and it comes down this drainage and through here. >> reporter: if you get a leak, water comes down to this low spot, this is the pump, it goes back up and you spit it back out? >> that's right. >> reporter: with their fields flooded, they don't have anything they can do until the