Why? I live in Sacramento. We used to (historically) get floods that would make the valley into a lake. And every time it rains now people panic that all the levees are going to crumble and we'll all be underwater. Our levee systems themselves are probably going to do a lot to prevent anything like that kind of thing happening. Even IF one breaks here or there.

"The Big One" isn't something to be afraid of. If it happens, it happens, and you can't do anything about it. There's no reason for it to take up space in your head as something serious to worry about. And if it is something you can't get your head away from, then do what you can to move away so that "The Big One" most likely won't affect you.

She's crying due to the rain accumulating on her giant statue head and finding that path.

I think the idea is it is supposed to be backlit by the headlights, since there are no other bright lights in the picture.

I was gonna say Ensemble Studios, but they already had Age of Empires 1 and 2 by the time Microsoft acquired them. Then we got the shit cake that was Age of Empires 3.