Emerging from the deep freeze only to enter the flood zone. I used to live in the area so there were many familiar WI town names with reports of flooding - Prairie du Sac, Lodi, DeForest and Mazomanie. Even saw the name of the street that ran at the east end of the farm I lived on as one that was closed by flooding. March always seemed like the cruelest month when I lived there. You get signs of hope only to get slammed again. May was a great relief.

The bad thing is that since flooding is fairly rare motorists don't understand just how easy it is to get washed away or in water so deep you need to be rescued. It's a common occurrence during thunderstorms in the Southwest so they even have summer PSAs on TV and on billboards warning motorists to turn around, don't drown when streets are flooded.