That's awful...those poor farmers. I don't know which is worse...I only have experience with drought. Both my sets of grandparents were farmers in NM and it was a big, big deal when it rained. They all had lived through the dust bowl and knew just how bad it could get. When it did rain we'd all go sit and the porch and just drink in the wonderfulness of it. When I was a kid, my prayers every night included a request for rain. The years when there wasn't much were tense and there were a few years with not much to show for their hard work.

I can't even imagine what it would be like to get so much it floods, but I have no doubt it's absolutely horrible.