This September there was an even bigger deluge than usual – most from people complaining about charges for damage to cars they had not caused.
The government was criticised for not preparing for the arrival of Typhoon Ketsana, which brought the biggest deluge for more than 40 years, submerging the capital and affecting some 2m people.
According to Hindu legend, during one of the biggest deluges that submerged the planet earth, Hindu god Shiva is said to have carried the 64 arts on a raft (called Thoni in Tamil).
The current big data deluge requires innovative solutions for performing efficient inference on large, heterogeneous amounts of information.
T. Wolpe, "Big data deluge: How Dutch water is trying to turn the tide", October 1, 2013, zdnet.com.
But the charity sector - organisations who are also finding themselves awash in the big data deluge - are rarely equipped to make use of this new opportunity.
However, according to McKinsey research, by 2018 the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists and 1.5 million managers and analysts capable of reaping actionable insights from the big data deluge.
One big work, "The Deluge" (2014), painted on a stage backdrop of a harbor scene, combines stormy clouds from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing with images of Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, from "North by Northwest".
Although even the increasingly reliable long-term forecasts cannot say exactly where and when a big blizzard, drought, deluge or heat wave will happen, anybody whose vacation plans are at the mercy of the weather may well wonder what La Nina has in store for the next several months.
