I heard several sound bites with officials saying, ‘No one could have predicted this’ and I keep thinking, “I betcha some groundwater geological engineer already predicted this exact disaster complete with amount of rain needed per each foot-level of river rise and with a precise measure of their margins of error.” I do NOT know that for a fact, but – having known geological engineers – it feels like the sort of thing they’d calculate out of idle curiosity (especially if they notice new development diverting groundwater in unmitigated ways).