Mr Willetts is not the only writer to worry about baby-boomers crashing through society like a flash flood.
The heavy rains moving across the East Coast also raised flash flood fears and forced water rescues in Virginia and Maryland near the nation's capital.
Despite the flash flood of news on the auto industry from Washington, several questions remain unresolved: What, exactly, are automakers supposed to include in their plans?
We help BNSF Railway prevent accidents by precisely informing them in sufficient time to take precautionary measures where a tornado or flash flood will occur along their right-of-way.
Many of the suburban Philadelphia areas were hit by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and by a flash flood last summer, said Marko Bourne, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch through Monday morning for parts of southwest Alabama, northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi, where three to six more inches of rain are expected.
Although it was still raining, the weather service lifted a flash-flood watch for Pennsylvania counties Sunday morning.
The problems began with torrential rains late Friday that continued into Saturday, triggering flash-flood warnings across South Texas.
On Saturday afternoon, San Antonio and Austin were under flash-flood warnings and flood watches and warnings, CNN meteorologists said.
Torrential rains overnight continued into the morning, triggering flash-flood warnings across South Texas.
The storm churned eastward, prompting severe thunderstorm and flash-flood warnings in eastern Tennessee and western portions of the Carolinas.
CNN: High winds, tornado trap Georgia residents, turn over cars
Flash floods hit the Lockyer valley area west of Brisbane on 10 January, before flood waters moved to Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city.
The Environment Agency has staged a flash mob in Bristol in an attempt to get more people to sign up to its flood warning service.
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