When the Levee Holds Up 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. Baffling aerial footage of the flood shows the home and its surrounding, rectangular property untouched by the brown floodwater that has engulfed everything else in the region. The idea of constructing a levee, a technique that humans have known about and deployed for […]