This is like the me too of fire disasters. Hitting the town that ... never really delivered on the fire disaster movie. Which is odd coz they love the genre, & they live in an area prone to wildfire ...

Finally, it's like the movie comes to them.

On a globo-weather-level, it couldn't be further from the reality here, where the rain has been incessant for several years. It demonstrates that there are still cycles of dry & wet unfolding simultaneously. Observation indicates they are getting more extreme at either end of the spectrum.

At some point there will be the flip-arooney. Places that are now wet, will go dry-cycle ... & vice versa ... almost certainly to extreme degrees. I think/hope that point might be this year.