It's such an incomprehensibly large volume of water that's barreling through the central west right now. So many folks at best cut off from major road or rail arteries, to say nothing of the crushing numbers of people who've lost everything.
Forbes flood figure fact:
Nanami gauge upstream of town currently at 13.57m
Last flood it got to 13.39
Previous record from 1974 was 13.02
And it’s still rising.