Dyer County in western Tennessee experienced severe flooding recently. WREG 3 News reports that at least one hundred people in the town of Bogota alone have been evacuated as tributaries that feed into the Mississippi River have spilled their banks.But not this family. Aerial video recorded by Randy Gerald Moore revealed an estate protected by its own levees that appear to be just high enough to keep out the floodwaters. The Weather Channel reports that the family has been working on this project for yea...

Dyer county in Tennessee has been hit by floods recently. One family didn’t have to evacuate because, over the years, they’ve been building a levee around their property.

    • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Unfortunately there’s this thing called property rights which prevent people from living where the disasters aren’t, unless they shell out exponentially more money year by year.

      • BaroqueInMind
        2·
        4 days ago

        That sounds crazy. Are you or anyone else planning to do anything about this issue?

        • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          4 days ago

          I mean I fully squat on public and unused private land in accordance with international squatting ideology, but most Americans believe property has more rights than humans could ever, and are willing to kill someone instantly if they violate those supposed property rights, so its extremely unlikely they’ll do anything until after the total collapse of the US. Even then most of them will still uphold private property above true commons or even other humans, completely missing the point of existence.

          • BaroqueInMind
            2·
            4 days ago

            So it sounds like people are doing nothing about this and content simply complaining about it online.

            As long as you keep the neighborhood looking clean and safe for kids, no one truly gives a fuck if you’re squatting… Which is what I hope most people think.

            A safe place to live comfortably should be a fucking human right. Too bad this idea is seen as extremist socialist by most of the world, not just USA, so don’t get this fact twisted saying that it’s the only country that has this shit idealogy.