[badcar]

I grew up there and lived near the river. The frequency and severity of the floods over the past twenty years has picked up. As someone that had to sandbag to save my childhood home 3 times in my lifetime, and volunteered in the late 1990's to help my former neighbors, I can assure you that no federal funds were received by my family nor those friends who I helped back then.
Generally the floods are minor and a normal occurrence each spring. But Mother Nature has been a "bxtch" lately.