Where was your crystal ball?

No serious flooding round here, thank goodness, but it's not that far away that they've had it (and indeed for many, still continue to have it) really bad. The media don't seem to know just how to approach this, and at times appear to be wanting to have their cake and eat it. On the one hand, they report that the flooding was "extreme", "exceptional", "unprecedented" and so on, and yet in the next breath they are critical of the Environment Agency for not being better prepared. When you think about it, by its very nature, you can't prepare for an exceptional or unprecedented event, can you? I think the Environment Agency are taking some rather unfair flak.