To be fair to the ancients, floods were as common an occurrence as they are today. Every living person would have probably experienced at least one. There exis

To be fair to the ancients, floods were as common an occurrence as they are today. Every living person would have probably experienced at least one. There exists however, a story about a particularity bad flood in many cultures. Instead of assuming that the ancients were stupid and thought of every flood as "teh worst evar!!!", it's far more likely that there was in fact an instance of a flood that stood out from the rest enough to write down.