The bucket brigade sounds like fun.
Locally here in the Midwest they’re clearing all the brush from around the bridges and out of the gullies because they believe the amount of water expected will wash them out, otherwise. This year we had a special assessment in the Mississippi river basin (to the tune of $700 on a building we only paid in the mid 5 digits for) to pay for the diesel fuel used to pump rainwater over the levee a couple of years back. If there was a way to channel the excess water to a location that needs it, it would be a boon to all.
And yes, at the same time we have been experiencing drought the past few years. Pre-civilization, millions, billions? of acres would have been flooded and slowly given up their saturation to evaporation, increasing the humidity and – presumably – rainfall.
Humans have made such a mess of the Earth. It embarrasses and disgusts me. If a superior alien race visited the Earth, they would likely wipe out the humans, taking them for a form of cancer that needed to be eliminated in order for intelligent life to evolve.
Humans are like a bunch of juvenile delinquents entering their 20’s. We know better, but refuse to acknowledge it, and try to reverse our transgressions.
I don’t need no fancy schmancy soapbox. I’m a stump preacher!