SATARTIA, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
The backwater in Yazoo County is still rising, but at a much slower pace than earlier, as the Mississippi River nears it's crest.
Still, many homes are being threatened by the flooding Yazoo River backwater, including one old home that has also been hit by tornadoes twice in one year.
The old house on Eagle Bend Road, about six miles from Highway 3, just south of Yazoo City was severely damaged twice by tornadoes in one year.
It is now threatened by the floodwaters of the still rising Yazoo River.
It's owner Hayes Dent was working in Jackson when we visited but he told us by phone he doesn't think it will get in his house with current forecasts.
You can see a current when water is running across Eagle Bend Road out into the Yazoo County fields.
Down Highway 3 towards Vicksburg, the little village of Satartia has had 7 families get water.
But it's Mayor Charles Landrin, who is also a cropduster, thinks the levee will protect the rest of town.
"People around here have confidence in our levee," Mayor Landin said. "It's gonna protect the opposite side of the river."
Bill Sheppard, Assistant Chief Engineer of the Levee Board out of Clarksdale explained the levee with Visqueen on it.
"There is a gap in the levee there, standard procedure is when they predict a crest, as a certain level rising, you close the gap," Sheppard said.
John Peterson, a 53 year old farm worker, works for Bob Ragland who has a farm at Satartia of 3,500 acres, which is under water.
"Everything we farm is underwater," Peterson said.
That levee has been built up to the height of 110 feet above sea level.
The current forecast for Satartia is 106 feet.
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