I admire these guys:

In a town inundated by flood water, one house remained dry

A family in western Tennessee built levees around their home -- and managed to keep floodwaters from deluging it earlier this month.

By Ruby Mellen and Ian Livingston

Edit: Use the link in post 5. This one is reportedly behind a paywall.

https://wapo.st/43VKXz1

tried to read it but get a pop up from the Washington Post and can't see the article.

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I don't understand why that is not done more !!

In Nevada, once the gutters over run or get plugged up,
it turns into flooded street to.........................

Got to love city planning for folks.

Must have an account to view the story.

This link is not behind a paywall.

Check out the way one family protected their home from historic flooding in Tennessee 🤯 | Not the Bee

The only issue with building a levee or other type structure that diverts water from your property, is that it may adversely impact another property. I am sure proper permits would be necessary.

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Just goes to prove the old saying, God helps those who help themselves

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So that's where all the toilet paper went...?

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Sorry but the site requires me to enter my email to view the story, so not going to do that.

Water diversion is a tricky subject, but I not sure he really diverted however I am no expert. I know this regardless of the legality of it he certainly avoided a nightmare scenario.

Water over time is as close to a universal solvent as one can get. It created the grand canyon, right ?

Use the link I posted above. No paywall.

Sorry about that. Thought I posted a gift article. See MrChick's link in post #5. (Thanks, MrChick!)

I think interesting, impressive, that the brothers' father taught them to build levees in times of flood, and that they continue the practice.

As I learned a long time back, if you want it done right, do it yourself.

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A guy near the River Severn in England did something similar with a four foot wall around his property. He got sick and tired of the Environment Agency dithering to fix things.* I expect any day now there will be an enforcement order for denying the river "access to its ancient flood plain" or some such rubbish.


*Not that they can fix things, it's just that the UK has been getting heavier rainstorms over the last 25 years leading to more floods.

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Here you would need a permit to impound water, but they didn't impound any of it. Looks pretty rural and in many place outside the city you don't need a permit to do dirt work. I build my entire house with nothing but an electrical permit and an OK from the county sanitarian on the septic system as long Is I had less than 2 toliets

Back in my Army days the basic skills of an infantryman included the creative uses of sandbags. Saw some pretty impressive construction projects in Vietnam that used very few other materials.

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