I understand the water wanting go its own way. This summer the rivers Around Yellowstone National Park, due to 500 year flooding all rerouted themselves into flows that were least resistant. Of course the buildings and infrastructure that were built up in areas that previously  were the area of least resistant now were in the way the water wanted to flow. Buildings foundations, roadways and bridges were now in the middle of or on the wrong side of the flowing water. It will take a couple of years and a few million dollars to make this area reliably habitable again. Now that winter has arrived, any infrastructure repairs will have to wait until after the spring runoff next year to make repairs.