It’s time to fight fire with fire. Senate Bill 5 — the bane of Central Valley cities, counties, and property owners  who have never flooded but now have to spend hundreds of millions on upgrades to protect against events that are considered small on the flood rating scale — came about in 2007. It was on the heels of Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans that was far from a fair comparison to flooding concerns as well as record damages from Central Valley floods in February 1986, January 1997 and January 1999.