text:  Yeah, so, you know, the town has always flooded because it was built on land that the white plantation owners didn't want because it was almost too flood-prone to even grow cotton on. But in the last 25 years, there have been two really devastating floods from hurricanes, once in 1999 and then once in 2016. And those floods, residents talk about them as just having basically emptied out the town. So in the aftermath of those two events, they've never really recovered and they've sort of been draining away ever since.