'I Tried To Stay And Hold On As Long As I Could': Returning To A Flooded Mississippi Home
Anderson Jones woke up at 2 a.m. on the morning of May 19 and knew it was time to leave.
The rising floodwaters had been threatening his house in the Mississippi Delta since February. But now, the sandbags were failing.
“I wasn’t going to leave until the water practically got into my house,” says Jones, 59. “I tried to stay and hold on as long as I could.”
Jones lives near the small town of Filter, Mississippi, for the first time in their careers.
