[Why does generalizing have to be so impractical these days?]

Quite. Well, it shows that it could always be worse.

And as I said, it doesn't fit his pattern, no announcement, no warning, simply things happening without any apparent reason. It's also gone on for far longer than any other flood I've seen, having started in August. He might, of course, still be the culprit, but I think it shouldn't be assumed quite yet.