.. there s no doubt about that. in my state of north dakota, we were hit by record floods, records that are so far exceeding anything ever in recorded history, that you have to wonder what is happening. i just say so those who are listening two major river systems in our state were affected. this headline for the daily news really says it all swampedded . this is our fourth largest town. in 48 hours, the level of the flood was increased, the projection, 10 feet. i mean, there s no way you can respond in 48 hours to an increase in the projection had 10 feet. that is inhumanly humanly not possible to defend a town. a wall of water was headed our way, more than 11,000 residents were evacuated. this is three and a half feet higher in terms of the flood level than the record recorded flood of 1881, so we re dealing with something that is so far outside our experience that it s hard to even talk about. the damage to this town was dramatic, more than 4,000 homes were swampe