The floods of May 2014 severely hit the entire Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the largest BiH city that suffered devastation was Doboj. Over 80% of the aid that Doboj received since May 2014 was obtained through international assistance and Doboj’s mayor, Obren Petrović, who ran in opposition to the official Republic of Srpska (RS) policy line of the dominant SNSD and their leader, Milorad Dodik. Our hypothesis was that a national catastrophe, although devastating for most people, was politically powerful enough to actually interject with the present order of governance in Dayton BiH by challenging this kind of ethnopolitics. To do so, we studied the relationships between ethnic identity construction, seen as primarily discursive and performative, and ethnopolitics, as the politics aiming at preserving the present Dayton logic and divisions, and crisis management after the May 2014 floods. The paper is a critical discourse analysis of available media texts on Doboj floods governance that emerged immediately following the crisis as well as affected people’s narratives in the postflood period reflecting on the situation 19 months after the floods. In this way, it was followed how media discourses reflected and shaped the thinking immediately upon the crisis, speaking and acting in the flood governance domain and prioritizing certain frames over others and how relevant social actors’ and affected people’s discourses reflected on floods governance and political action during the postflood recovery period in the city of Doboj.