"When I open the doors, it just floods back in".
As it turned out, another energy company had set up a job fair at the hotel, and it was just flooded with Enron people.
As the staff at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans applied their well-developed hurricane-reporting skills last week, it was not just flooded roads and power failures that they contended with.
I'd like to say it was a sort of Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater effect, but really it was just flooding the house.
"Obviously if you are trying to sell a property which has only just flooded, it will make the job more difficult, but I estimate the initial drop in value is probably no more than 10% – and this recovered to virtually nothing within 12 months in 2000".
Once I'd hit on the idea and decided to go with it, the characters and storylines just flooded into my brain.
It's not like people just flooded the streets upon hearing that Bank of America is trying to tack on another surcharge, just after laying off over 30,000 employees, just after widespread manipulation of their loan business was deemed not criminal, by their own accord.
"When we saw the letter lying on the mat, it was a fat letter, so we knew it wasn't a rejection, and I felt just flooded by the promise of sunshine.
"The water just flooded into the plane quickly.
Like some sort of dam broke inside me and, boom, the fat just flooded out.
