EXTREMES in weather and nature?

PS: a little quote from my step-nephew childhood sweetheart BEST friend (we're same age LOL) who just got back from Newfoundland, regards the flooding in NFLD :

hell we had more than that here in GP (Grand Prairie, Alberta) the day before we left for NFLD. Guys were boating downtown to get to their place of business. Cars and trucks were stalled out on the streets all over town. They cancelled our 7am flight and we couldn't get out until late in the afternoon...so we were actually a day late getting to St John's

:witch