Do you agree with the government flooding rural areas to avoid flooding the cities?

Over the last few days evacuation notices have been given along the Mississippi River because it is at, above, or going to be above flood stage, and the government is also opening levees flooding rural areas along the Mississippi to diminish flooding in larger metropolitan areas. From what I understand the federal government will pay property owners the value of their houses, and I would guess compensation for crops that are lost, and other costs and losses.

I personally only know one person indirectly who had to evacuate, and will be displaced for months, but they were not the property owners, just renting.

Do you agree with the government choosing who will be flooded out of their homes? I would guess from a cost perspective this is cheaper for the government, and in turn the American people, and displaces fewer people than the alternative. But, when it is your life that is disrupted, it doesn’t feel good that you were one of the few to spare the many.