On an off-chance - I bet there's many riverside businesses in France today who would love to hear from a hydrologist what might be done to avoid another river breach.
We've got to stop saying things in the news like "three months of rain fell in three hours". No. It was merely 3 hours of rain. Old records are an artifact, not a measuring device. Sorry they lost their towns, not sorry for mocking the rhetoric that today's weather is still comparable to the past like these storms are merely anomalies.
I understand the US is having difficulty with
water too, to put it mildly, bound to be something you can do there.