if it was not for our cleverly designed and deployed dykes.

My gosh I hope everyone's as smart as the architects of your cities! The rest of the world's drowning man. Bad weather, climate change, corrupt politicians who cannot allocate public funds to cleverly design dykes lol?

"Four thousand Euro option only", he said. "For the quality of the sounds and all, a super option to take", he continued.

I think that was just an attempt to rip you off lol.