Note: This post was first published on www.criticalconsent.com. The included images have been moved to the bottom of this post to improve readability. Currently there are massive floods in parts of Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The past few days have seen outpourings of rain that are bigger than what normally falls in the entire month of July. We are talking 150-200 Litres per square metre in some cases. The village where I grew up made the national news as a huge river of water