I've been around flooding my whole life. I know people who lived in New orleans a block away from the major flood wall breach during Katrina; their homes filled with nine feet of water in twenty minutes. I've been fortunate - I've never lived in an area which floods even a little...
Ellis remembered, "I was in a 23-foot vessel with a 225 horsepower engine on it, and I couldn’t keep up with the flow, I eventually had to turn around.”