Rebuilding after the Yazoo flood in Mississippi

WBUR | By Peter O'Dowd

Published November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM CST

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Six years ago, Anderson Jones had to flee the historic flood as it inundated his home in the Mississippi Yazoo Backwater. The water didn’t recede for most of 2019, and it took him five years to rebuild.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd visited Jones in his flooded home six years ago, and today he returns to see what the long recovery has been like.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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