The column's descriptions change while the physical water remains. A second-ring flood is restated at the first ring. Residents remember a third-ring mark now listed at the second. Spring water reaches the old fourth ring but is recorded at the third, requiring no notice. Two lower-street doors take water and a mother is carried upstairs. Reclassification has not lowered the flood.
Sava submits the old fourth-ring level and the two door numbers. The public-notice clerk refuses a warning because no qualifying rise is recorded. Measures already lists the street as warned. Sava strikes that entry, but the next printing restores it. He carries the notice to a door himself and waits when nobody is in. Refusing the warning and falsely recording it are separate acts.
The cat indicates the wet line and the keeper paints it. A removal order bears Measures and Sava's own stamp, although Sava contests its application and catches the tin. The keeper's knuckle is cut; he pours paint over the order and is told to invoice for cleaning. The street calls the mark the High Line. The stamp does not reveal who issued the order.