Field events at Hampden Park were postponed, runners sloshed through puddles on the track, while the men's and women's road races resembled four-hour training sessions in a carwash.
We had been showered on since leaving the 10th-century Moorish mosque in Almonastar and sloshed over the hills till we arrived at a posada in Alájar several hours later.
At its peak during a rain-soaked 1983, Lake Mead sloshed above 373 metres.
Britain and France are the keenest, though neither is likely to opt for full public disclosure of beneficial ownership, at least for now.After decades in which corporate tax fiddles have mushroomed, and colossal amounts of criminal and kleptocrat money have sloshed through the world financial system, even limited progress is welcome.
If the same pattern holds for the whole workforce, the very fact of being paid kills nearly 100 Swedes a year.Previous research had suggested that drinking and recreational drug-taking tend to rise on paydays: workers suddenly flush with cash get sloshed or high.
"We know that punchbowl-removal operations are very unpopular among the slightly sloshed," is how one Western regulator puts it.
The resulting centrifugal force sloshed the fuel against the inside walls of the rocket, starving the engines and causing them to cut out.But Mr Musk was chirpy.
The fund was not independently audited, and almost none of the money that sloshed through it was properly accounted for.
As far away as Delhi, India's capital, windows rattled and water sloshed in jugs, and the metro service was suspended.
India has been a voracious consumer of the hot money that has sloshed around the world in recent years, using it to plug its balance-of-payments gap.
The aircraft hit turbulence; the tea sloshed precariously inside the mug; but Al Gore, vice-president and likely Democratic presidential nominee, pressed home his point about Japan's long-term fiscal balance and kept the mug in balance also.
