The people do everything and they always have and always will. A lot of people panic are swept away in a flood. Some don't.

My brother in law, wife, and me were shooting the Colorado River rapids on fine summer day. Now the wife can swim like a fish.

So you lie on your back in the water, I said to them go down feet first and move your hands next to your hips to keep up.

If you want to go to the left bank you tilt your feet to the right and the current pushes your body to the left.
If you want to go to the right bank you tilt your feet to left and the current will push your body to the left.

Keep your head up and steer like that away from rocks, hazards like trees and rocks, and whirlpools that will suck you down so you see where you're going. Steer to avoid that stuff.

Now we're shooting about a half a mile around a good sized bend that curved around a bar to left, which we could get out there at the end, run back up to the start and doing that all day.

When we were done hours later, we were talking and my brother in law said he had never swam before and didn't know how to swim before this and it was great! He was about 14.

You don't know to swim?

No.

I didn't know that.

Again tilt your against the current opposite to where you want to land. Relax and keep your feet up. And if a kid that does not know how to swim - don't swallow the water.

No solution is perfect but somehow humanity survived.

One time I was driving South on U S 99 past Kern county, California and the whole county was under water. The whole thing. I've seen it in other places and it happens. Life's a bitch and then you die, was what Americans used to say when I was a kid. And though I live in a desert, this last snowfall flooded my basement about a foot deep. Three times during the 24 hour period. It wasn't as deep each subsequent time. But I lost keys and couldn't get inside to move the barrel filling hose. I found my keys finally...after a rhyming prayer to St. Anthony.