Did Nostradamus predict the floods?
The answer is No, not particularly. The Nostradamus “Quatrains” are interestingly close on a few historical events but then, again, you can take horoscopes, biblical text, Greek Mythology, even, Aesop’s Fables, and align them all to something historical and/or of human nature, within any generation’s lifetime, and they seem to make sense or be mysteriously accurate and of the time. Many ancient texts and stories are assimilated accounts of great disasters and human faults, encapsulated in “lesson stories.” These stories (or news) traveled from village to village as both entertainment and record keeping. Before writing and duplicated text was more commonplace, storytelling was how humans kept history, showcased their hero tales and God(s), as well as attempted to warn or predict the repeating of bad events for bad people. Nostradamus’ writings are somewhere between the ancient Epic story form and cryptic Mysticism. Perhaps, envisioning Shakespeare with a Swami turban and a crystal ball
Nostradamus never mentions dates in his writings. It is only a few modern people who have read his writings and though that some event that happened already bears some resemblance to something he wrote. But nobody has ever correctly predicted a future event based on any of his writings. He says things like, “There shall be earthquakes in divers places” and some person will look at a record of Earthquakes and see that several happened in one year in different places and he will say that Nostradamus predicted it. But nobody ever reads “There shall be earthquakes in divers places” BEFORE the earthquakes and then says when they will happen, because you can’t tell from such a general statement. Or if they do say when they should happen, they don’t happen as predicted after all.
The quartains that nostradamus wrote were fairly vague, and could be applied a number of situations in after thought. A number of more specific versions of his quartains are floating around the internet, most of which are purely made up recently and not real quartains. His predictions so far have all been applied to situations after the fact, so even if they were predicted by some kind of psychic power, they are completely useless. He lived in Europe in the early 1500s, so he used the same calandar as us. Without delving to deeply into his specific predictions, he probably made some predictions of catastrophe for the year 2000, but that was very popular amounst prophets until it happened, because people believed the year 2000 was something special and stuff would happen. If it happened 6 or 7 years later, you are just justifying the prediction and it is not evidence of any kind of accuracy. There was bound to be some kind of flooding in Southern England at some point in time.
