Thank you for your feedback, Wedgie! Your comment is my favourite of the ones we received, I'm very happy to hear that you enjoyed our game.
On playing it myself many a time, I agree that the game is quite unforgiving and it can be quite frustrating! I like to think though that this evokes helplessness and futility in the player. Of course we want you to keep playing till the end and not just rage quit. But the nature of a natural disaster such as a flood is completely unforgiving. I'd like to think that this difficulty spurs people to keep fighting for survival, as there's no greater prize than life.