In the twentieth century, the highest-impact aquatic disaster was the Mississippi River flood of 1927 (the subject of a lovely 1939 novella,"Old Man," by William Faulkner), but New Orleans also got a direct hit from Hurricane Betsy, in 1965, and had many near-misses.
Delacroix's Moroccan paintings released a flood of North African subjects, although, in the hands of lesser artists—such as Eugène Fromentin, Ary Scheffer, and Eugène Devéria the treatment is less effective.
As much as it was literally the last thing that anybody wanted to hear on a pleasant Sunday afternoon, Michael Douglas's decision to announce that his throat cancer was caused by – and possibly cured by – cunnilingus has led to a flood of discussion on the subject.
Brainstorm a flood of ideas on the subject that you are likely to debate.
Gregory Treverton, a RAND Corporation expert who is a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, said that as hundreds of analysts flood into the subject of the moment, they are assigned to narrower and narrower slices of the problem.
Most readers try to make their exaggerations more credible than this, but the honest will admit that the Internet, social media, T.V., and the flood of information to which we subject ourselves every day, if not every minute, have seriously cut into not just book reading but book readiness.
"Futurama" joins a flood of season finales this weekend, with subjects ranging from a day at the beach to sexual slavery.
Some are pretty familiar to anyone who has read the flood of popular magazine articles on the subject: get up at the same time every day, hide the clock, exercise, avoid late-night television and long naps, drink a glass of milk an hour or so before bedtime, go to bed only when sleepy, resist alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and heavy meals close to bedtime.
Dr. Hatfill, who worked at the Army's laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., in the late 1990s, was the subject of a flood of news media coverage beginning in mid-2002, aftelevisionsion cameras showed Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in biohazard suits searching his apartment near the Army base.
If there's one thing that we can bank on in this New Year (and the solvency of banks isn't one of them), it's that we'll be subjected to a flood of stories speculating on whether Dec. 21, 2012 will bring about the end of the world.
