In addition to terrible effects on livestock, crops and farmers, floods can affect many other things as well. I was interested to read this story about how a famous painting in Florence, Italy, has been restored and redisplayed at its museum 50 years after it was damaged by a strong flood.  You can read about the flood and the effort to repair the painting at https://www.wunderground.com/news/flood-damaged-last-supper-unveiled-florence-italy-after-50-year-restoration?__prclt=4YYAIbfZ.

Giorgio Vasari's "The Last Supper" is returned to the Santa Croce Basilica in Florence, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, after years of painstaking restoration. The 16th-century painting by had been badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence. (Maurizio Degl' Innocenti/ANSA via AP)
Giorgio Vasari’s “The Last Supper” is returned to the Santa Croce Basilica in Florence, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, after years of painstaking restoration. The 16th-century painting by had been badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence.
(Maurizio Degl’ Innocenti/ANSA via AP)