Do you not get severe weather very often down your way? In the middle of the US, we get winter ice storms that disrupt power break tree limbs and spring and fall tornados with high wind that knock over fences and trees, etc. So the type of effects you describe are still unpleasant, but not unknown.
Right now, it's rain, rain, rain. Been raining pretty much for two weeks...have logged 5" at my house in April, and today is only thr 4th!
Rode elbandido into some Mississippi River flood water on Monday evening (on purpose, and only about 5-6 inches deep, I'm not crazy!). It really was the river, flooding a couple miles inland at Shelby Forest, and it did have a current, not just backwater.