Brothers Save Their Home from Massive Flood with Homemade Levee–Father Who Taught Them ‘Would have liked that’ (WATCH)

April 18, 2025 journo

Stunning footage from the recent flood in Tennessee show a man’s property suspended as if via a force field amid brown floodwaters.

The seemingly impossible sight was down to the Humphrey brothers’ homemade levees, a tactic they have used before to ride out floods, and which they learned from their late father.

The farming community in Bogota was ravaged by floods last week on the back of a massive storm. The Obion River was up 9 feet in about as many hours, and kept rising until it reached just 5 feet shy of the record on April 8th.

While many will have lost everything, the house and garden of Justin and Tucker Humphrey, both farmers, were recently subject of a viral video shot from helicopter. There the property was, like an island amid a brown sea.

Using an excavator to dig the levees, it’s something the pair have done before, and which Tucker called “just doing what we have to do.”

The brothers learned how to do it from their father, and on the back of all the social media hype, said that he would have been proud.

“He’d like seeing that,” Tucker told the Washington Post. “He’d know we were listening when we were kids.”

The comments section praised the men’s ingenuity and preparatory foresight, with one wishing God’s blessings on “a couple of Tennessee boys and their departed Dad for being smart enough, [and] stubborn enough.”

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