Just because a character is the antagonist does not mean you should kill them or have a flood of bad things (except for things relating to the failure of what they plan to do) happen to them.
My assumption that CES would herald a flood of the things was wrong.
It is easy, particularly in an office-based role such as mine, to get immersed in the Mekong-like flood of different things coming across your desk.
Time for some desperately needed good news, everybody: Netflix is gracing us with five incredible-sounding new anime to take our minds off the flood of terrible things happening all around us.
There are a lot of things flood insurance doesn't cover, including swimming pools, plants and fences; coverage for basements and other areas below ground is limited, so even if you have a flood policy you should review what you store there.
Somehow, the metaphors proliferated behind her back so that, when she went back to them, they suggested a novel to her; of three generations of women in a town called Fingerbone, grief-stricken, at constant risk of flooding and the resurgence of things long forgotten.
Property/casualty insurers still face a flood of claims for such things as business interruption, workers' compensation, aviation and liability policies, while life insurers are paying record payouts on death claims.
"Yes, the warnings they put out for hurricane-force wind warnings and then coastal flood warnings and all these sorts of things all cumulatively mean the same thing," he said.
The mode of "MaddAddam" is oral history, used intermittently as Toby, one of the female survivors of "The Year of the Flood," tries to explain the origin of things to the Children of Crake, who appeared in the first pages of the series's initial volume, "Oryx and Crake".
We live in a complex world and the sheer quantity of trying to keep track of things will sometimes flood the most devoted news junkie.
