(29 May 2019) In month four of an epic flood in Mississippi's Delta region, residents still struggle to save their homes and some farmers realize they won't plant an acre this year. Nobody knows for sure when the water covering 860 square miles north of Vicksburg will be gone. Residents say it's the worst flood they've seen since 1973.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant goes even further, likening it to the storied flood of 1927.
In tiny Holly Bluff, the fire chief says months of stress has people on edge.
The water is trapped inside levees by a floodgate protecting the region from even worse flooding by a swollen Mississippi River.
Water piles up with nowhere to go, because a planned pumping station was vetoed as harmful to the region's wetlands.
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