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It was originally part of a sixth-century monastery complex, but the other buildings were washed away in one of the great floods of the 19th century.
Californian hurricanes, African drought, destruction of Pacific fish and seabird populations, floods in South America, etc. (For more weather hype, see Slate's "Assessment" of El Niño.)
We have the almighty nuclear bomb and, yet, we despair when it comes to floods, droughts, cyclones and communicable diseases, many of them entirely avoidable man-made disasters.
Not a word in today's paper about the Chinese floods, presumably because they deemed a chatty feature on the Italians' obsession with cell phones to be more relevant to its readers.
Next was the Age of Floods with the goddess of waters, Chalchiuhtlicue, as the fourth sun.