Perhaps folks should not live in a city below sea level, which holds back the gulf waters by constructing series of earthen dikes?
If you live in the desert, you don’t get to bitch about lack of water.
I’m not in the area, but am pretty sure this flooding is well above sea level.
If where you live received almost 30 inches of rain in a three day period, I bet you’d be in danger of flooding as well. I have several friends who lived in areas that had NEVER flooded before lose everything because the designed drainage could not accommodate the sheer volume of water falling from the sky. Stick that desert sand up your butt.