As a resident of North Dakota, I can say that we have been experiencing and upsidedown weather pattern for the past 2 years, a very wet cycle with most percipitation falling in the west, highly unusual.  The west is arid country.  It isn't just the big rivers; its all the small rivers.  Then farm land is affected, much of it under water, and most too wet to seed.

Then we have flooding along the mighty Mississippi River.

At the same time, fires are raging in Arizona.

The country has experienced severe tornadoes, as far north as Massachutes. 

To top that off, North Dakota is home to the most miserly, cretin government that you would ever want to see.  North Dakota is sitting on a sea of oil, and the treasury is bursting with cash to the tune of $1 billion dollars.  So the state legislators give back #150 million dollars to the oil barons out of the state treasury, and refuses to help flood victims.  The governor says it is more important to encourage business and oil with tax breaks.  But what the hay?  Bush and Obamam have blown up trillions of tax payer dollars to encourage our national interest in oil in the Middle East.  Yet there isn't a politician anywhere smart enough to connect the dots.  Can you?