The northwest coastal rivers are currently the subject of a flood watch.
"The city has no funding to deal with this flood," Smiley said.
There are 700 in Afghanistan and it is right that on occasions such as the Olympic Games, or in times of national emergency such as flood relief, they provide support, ideally based on their professional skill set.
Money began to flood the East Village art world and Basquiat made the cover of Time magazine.
There's a flood of books – 600 plus, many of them weighty academic tomes dedicated to the original dumb blonde.
"When Dresden flooded 11 years ago, they called it the flood of the century, saying the last time it had happened was 150 years before," she said.
Osborne's pension reforms will produce a flood of spending today, not tomorrow, meaning that tax revenues will be boosted in the short term.
This year's Rite of Spring centenary has certainly unleashed a flood of tribute performances.
However, annual real-terms spending on flood defences will fall by 15% under the coalition government.
Other ideas included gassing the Heathrow Express and bombing a tube train under the Thames so that the river would flood the underground system.
This, combined with high tides, set off a devastating flood in the city, much of which is built on low-lying land reclaimed in the 19th century.
