I saw Australians hit by the flood drying up their home appliances such as fridge, etc from tv I think or somewhere.
Low level flood is damaging and stressful enough and higher level ones simply destroy homes.
I had experienced a low level flood back in the 1990s. It wasn't pretty. The only thing that made me calm was that I was already shown the flood and where we were going to evacuate along with whom about 2 days before it happened and even told my sister about it but she just gave me a weird look and ignored me then(she doesn't even remember having been told beforehand afterward). Nobody warned about the coming unending rain then. It rained for more than a week without stopping!
Luckily it didn't rain that hard but still I never saw rain pouring down for more than a week or days before that.