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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: that's right. hear we are in downtown vicksburg, a city battle. there are little battles going on throughout the delta. we've heard of farmers who have built berms around their farmhouses or silos. up the road eight miles in a town called redwood, they built a berm around the school, because the water was...

You are seeing, they moved out their furniture. only the roof of what is a utility shed here, it's 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 it's 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 water rising faster than forecasters first thought. they moved up the crest as you talked about. it ...

It's 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 didn't get so lucky. it looks like they lost everything. but they say that's the risk you take when you live along the river. >> any time you live near th...