Not seeing the obvious?

The images coming out of Pakistan of the flooding there are tragic and disturbing, but what I can't get my head round is that this isn't some natural disaster that's come out of the blue - this is the monsoon which happens every year at around this time. And Mother Nature is a fickle old girl, so it is inevitable that there will be years when you will get heavier than usual rain, just as there will be years when you don't get enough rain - and either of these events will produce problems - flooding from the first, and crop failures from the second. So my point is - surely you make sure that you have strategies in place to deal with these eventualities. The impression I get is that Pakistan just wings it and hopes for the best. Back to the drawing board perhaps?