Deluge in Louisiana

Days of intense rainfall in August 2016 led to widespread flooding in southern Louisiana, as rivers swelled high above their banks and many crested at record-high levels. According to news reports, the floods prompted the rescue of at least 20,000 people and caused at least nine deaths. Louisiana’s governor declared a state of emergency on August 12 and a “major disaster” on August 14....


NOAA - acquired August 14, 2016

...image shows some of the historic flooding. The photograph was acquired on August 14, 2016, with the Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS), which was flown on an aerial photography mission conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division. It shows flooded areas in Port Vincent, along a segment of the Amite River southeast of Baton Rouge. The photo was captured from an altitude of 1,500 meters (5,000 feet)—high enough to broadly survey the damage, but not so high that clouds block the view.

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The above image attached as overlay.
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Excellent overlay, syzygy. This was the most catastrophic weather event since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

This quotation -last three row exactly- we often say when such events occur.

Petőfi Sándor: FÖLTÁMADOTT A TENGER... (részlet)

"...Tombold ki, te özönvíz,
Tombold ki magadat,
Mutasd mélységes medred,
S dobáld a fellegekre
Bőszült tajtékodat;

Jegyezd vele az égre
Örök tanúságúl:
Habár fölűl a gálya,
S alúl a víznek árja,
Azért a víz az úr!"

Pest, 1848. március 27–-30.

I am not an expert in translating poems, now do a try anyway by leaving rhimes and trying to give meaning back:

"...Go berserk you deluge,
Let off the steam,
Show your riverbed in the abyss,
And throw your enraged froth
Up to the clouds;

Score up to skies with it
As an eternal lesson:
However the ship swings above,
And water streams below,
Water rules anyway!"

Of course writer had meant the wave of revolution, the uprise of the hungarian nation, also this is true in it's simple first meaning.