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when water stops asking permission and starts redrawing the map
means An inundation is an overwhelming flood — literally water covering land, or figuratively a flood of anything that arrives in unmanageable quantities.
from From Latin inundare, "to overflow," built from in- ("onto, upon") plus unda, "wave" — the same wave that ripples through undulate and abundant. So an inundation is, at root, waves coming up onto the land: the sea or river deciding the shoreline was merely a suggestion.
- root
- from Latin inundare, to overflow like a wave
- nile gift
- annual floods built Egypt's farms for millennia
- silt bonus
- flooding deposits nutrient-rich soil, fertilizing land for free
- sunny floods
- some coastal cities now flood on clear, rainless days