The flood that took out the town near where I grew up wasn't directly because of the water. it was the debris that the water carried until stopped at a bridge. People said it looked like a beaver dam. Then the water would rise and eventually be too much for the bridge that was designed to be a bridge and not a dam and the whole thing would give and that pile of mess would go down steam and take out the next bridge, one after the other.

After Sandy came through we were under a "no flush" order for about a week in Long Beach, NY.

National Guard came through and put a porta-potty on every street corner, with a huge number of them set up at city hall.

It was interesting times. . .

I had even more interesting times during my conscript time. At the army training ground the only outhouse looked a bit like this. Several "holes" in a row. No privacy there...

In any military establishment, privates are not privy to privacy....Your woodwork is of a far higher standard than the usual US latrine.

The biggest surprise to me in all of this is that they are rebuilding in the same location. Same comment for New Orleans.

Hey, if we get flooded out, maybe we should pick another place to live! What a concept...