The 2019 flood swamped more than half a million acres and destroyed nearly 700 homes. (Courtesy of Anderson Jones) The 2019 flood was historic, but this part of Mississippi is prone to flooding.

The HESCO barrier system that created the flood wall failed at River Drive and Pershing Avenue sending the Mississippi River into several blocks of the community on April 30, 2019.

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta’s Yazoo Backwater. It destroyed nearly 700 homes, wiped out an entire planting season for some farms ...

A lawsuit claiming millions of dollars in damage has been filed in Scott County Court, exactly five years after a flood raged through downtown Davenport. On April 30, 2019, HESCO barriers designed ...