On Sunday night the Ross River Dam was at about 250 percent of its capacity and it's flood gates had to be opened in to prevent the structure from collapsing.
This increase in sea level has led to more high tides, which has led the city to raise the gates far more often than originally planned, 66 times so far.
Once I started to know more people, and showed them my willingness to socialize, the floodgates opened, and somehow it was expected of me to hangout with them regularly, and, basically, spend my free time in social settings.
And she could not let herself cry. She had not really cried since she came home and she knew that if she once let down the floodgates, her closely husbanded courage would all be gone.
I have to watch my balance, especially as I take a few steps out from my wheelchair in order to close the gate behind me; there is no way to do this while I'm seated.
It needs to move money out of the door fast, get it quickly to where it can do most good and not carry with it a tail of long-term spending commitments.
So in the view of a lot of analysts, this now kind of opens the floodgates potentially to other companies looking to come in and do deals of this kind of size.
Those systems that really run machinery whether it's gates on dams or parts of the electric grid across our sectors that could have physical consequences.