France, Dec. 6 -- More than 50 people died in the floods, thousands more were displaced - and an agricultural landscape a generation in the making was washed away in a single night.

Eight months later, the pain and uncertainty have not receded.

Forty minutes away in Naivasha, Grace, a small-scale farmer, mother of three and lifelong resident, stands on what remains of her farmland.

Where vegetables once grew, stagnant brown pools shimmer as the returning rains pour down. The foundations of her house lie broken, like a shattered clay pot. She wraps a torn shawl around her shoulders and looks to the sky as if for an answer.

"The flood took our goats, our seeds, even our soil," she said, exhausted. "We are starting from nothing again." ...