Suddenly, Polish plumbers were inundating the old member states.

My mind teems, jumbles of faces, voices, impressions, I live my life over, as though I were drowning.

Then I am drowning, in despair at having to leave her, this, everything, all, unbearable, awful.

The St. Elizabeth's flood of 1421 was a flooding of an area in what is now the Netherlands.

But now we see that austerity has plunged Greece, Portugal, and especially Spain and Italy deeply into recession.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

An Israeli blockade has plunged Gaza in darkness, sparking international calls and anger on the Arab street to stop the carnage.

Sometimes I think it's better just to sink way down in your funky mood 'til you can rise up humming these steel guitar blues.

MrScorpio created a subject on DemocraticUnderground.com and ever since, internauts have been inundating the site with their reactions, personal testimonies and memories of mistreatment by white people in the United States.

Indeed, North Korean behavior became much more provocative, including an attack in 2010 that sank the South Korean corvette Cheonan and another in which the South s Yeonpyeong Island was shelled.

But now we see that austerity has plunged Greece, Portugal, and especially Spain and Italy deeply into recession. The president of the European Central Bank, as well as the International Monetary Fund, acknowledge the gravity of the problem.

Indeed, they became evident six years ago, when the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004 inundated India s second largest nuclear complex, shutting down the Madras power station.

In Europe, there was continued emphasis on austerity, with self congratulations on the progress made so far, and a reaffirmation of resolve to continue along a course that has now plunged Europe as a whole into recession and the United Kingdom into a triple dip downturn.

From 2009 to 2011, with advanced economies pursuing near zero interest rates and quantitative easing, yield hungry investors flooded countries like South Korea and Brazil with hot money, fueling currency appreciation and inflating asset bubbles.

And went from swimming one lap so 20 yards like a drowning monkey, at about 200 beats per minute heart rate I measured it to going to Montauk on Long Island, close to where I grew up, and jumping into the ocean and swimming one kilometer in open water, getting out and feeling better than when I went in.