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RickVS
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WRT the Mississippi flooding, you see pictures of homes with levees surrounding them that the homeowners built. It keeps the water out. Here is my question. The ground beneath the flood waters has to be soaked. Wouldn't this water permeate the dry ground right next to it under the levee like when a paper towel absorbs water and the water spreads as it gets soaked up? And if the ground under and inside the levee is soaked, then how come the enormous pressure of the surrounding waters don't just percolate up through the ground and fill in the area inside the levee until the water level, and pressure, is equal to the water levels surrounding it? These homes, for the most part, are bone dry, or at least dry enough to not pool water (with one exception that I saw, but even then it just pooled and that was it). Thanks.