Certainly, nature's fury cannot be stopped but you can stop artificial floods by more disaster management. Remember the Cauvery plains are flooded during the South west monsoon(June-August) which brings heavy rain to the western India whereas the northeast monsoon starts only after August. And also these cyclones bring good rainfall to TN coasts but never cause excessive floods as 95% of them cross the continents between central Andhra and southern Orissa. So floods in AP and orissa are caused by cyclones and certainly not the floods of TN. Even the central cauvery plains are heavily flooded during south west monsoon. Thats because of the sudden flow of excess water from KN dams.