A Levee Shields A House From The Mississippi River Floods

It seems like natural disaster after natural disaster these days. The Mississippi River has been flooding for a while now, and in order to fend it off, people have built levees around their homes as protection. Sometimes it works.

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(6 Comments)
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    Awnshegh

    Friday, May 20, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    Er, where’s the driveway??

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    Gazman

    Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM

    I’d suspect a decent 4wd would scale that pretty easily. Doesn’t look that steep…

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      Mr Biggles

      Friday, May 20, 2011 at 2:16 PM

      Yes, but they’re not trying to protect themselves from 4WD’s, are they?

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        Jed

        Friday, May 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM

        I think he was refering to the no driveway comment.

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        Paul

        Friday, May 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM

        Attack of the Land Cruisers.

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    jasonk

    Monday, May 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM

    imagine the view from the porch

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