But the newcomers and the flowers are not the only source of all this misery.
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But amid all the misery, rescuers continue to have their efforts rewarded -- a woman and her one-year-old baby were pulled almost unscathed from the rubble of a collapsed building, as was a young man who'd spent a-hundred-and-three hours without food or water.
Humanity, in all its splendor and misery, is on jaw-dropping display.
As well as being burdened by unsustainable levels of external debt, all five economies share the misery of trying to regain lost competitive ground through internal devaluation, in which domestic costs are ground down year after year.
Nevada, Florida, Arizona and California top the housing misery list: they all had huge price declines and lots of foreclosures.
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Although construction was badly hit, the misery was spread across all sectors.
Their misery was clear - all were showing signs of exhaustion and depression and many had suffered painful wounds from poorly designed compartments and terrible friction injuries due to inadequate space on the vehicle.
Italy lost all their November Tests and further misery has been piled on to the nation's leading players with Heineken Cup sides Treviso and Calvisano failing to register a win in the 2008-09 season's four opening rounds.
The charge that Bain left misery in its wake is all the more awkward because Mr Romney had a privileged upbringing.
For all this expense and the consequent human misery, the patrol reckons it catches six or seven of every ten illegal entrants.
And so once again we are faced with a sympathetic, beaten Thomas Barrow, a man who has squandered all his good will, all his money, and now must leave Downton with no reference at all a perfect storm of misery and ruin into which the always compassionate John Bates inserts himself.
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Nearly all of it has been about death and misery.
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And for all that the scene is preoccupied with alienation and misery, its champions claim it offers a comradeship of sorts.
The other presence is the city itself -- vast, throbbing with life, teeming with misery and, as depicted here, all but unfathomable to Westerners seeking to penetrate its secrets.
What if the road out of misery, to prosperity, is axiomatically simple and all else is simply obfuscation?
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In Greece politicians of all stripes blame the EU and IMF, to a greater or lesser extent, for their misery.
On one occasion, Chamara Kapugedara, who was eventually put out of his misery when driving Broad to mid-off, threw his bat out of his hands all the way to square-leg umpire Aleem Dar.
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