sad and sort of angry: Etherknitter had this article linked on her blog.

I remember now, having read it.

(deleted the rest. Griping about people not listening to the people who make it their life's work to study and predict such things does no good. I will just mention that after the 1993 Upper Midwest floods, there was much talk of restoring wetlands on the upmost reaches of the Mississippi as a way of preventing future floods. I don't think it's happened, yet.)