But it feels particularly nasty here now, again, particularly extreme.
Reading them, you feel again the extreme excitement at possibility that is the hallmark of youth.
Although plans have been made to avoid this happening again, in extreme weather there are limits to what any city even Chicago is able to deal with.
Alan Pardew will have to wait and see if Wilfried Zaha's exhilarating attacking improvisation is sufficient to pacify Crystal Palace's critical American investors after his side once again displayed extreme defensive vulnerability.
As Britain is battered yet again by extreme weather, Panorama has been filming with the people living with the floods.
"The threats made by this terrorist group show once again the extreme cruelty of [Islamic State] and those who say they are affiliated to it".
"In order to push his costly climate change agenda, the President is once again linking extreme weather to climate change with no scientific support," said Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) in a statement.
At a time when sovereign credit markets in Europe are again under extreme stress, it would be irresponsible to allow the BABs program to expire.
