Dear dxb: I was not trying to be prophetic, just trying to dig up a quate about floods:
"Thus did Louis XVI the King of France and husband of Marie Antoinette live to witness his subjects write Article 11 into their “Declaration of the Rights of Men” in 1791 whereby “the unrestrained communication of opinion being one of the most precious rights of man, every citizen may speak, write and public freely” leaving the King to say , “Apres nous le deluge,” before he lost his head a year later."