Century 2 Quatrain 46

After a great flood for humanity a great one prepared
The great mover renews the ages
Rain, Blood, Milk, Famine, steel and plague
Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running
Century 2 Quatrain 46 - Nostradamus Prophecy

What exactly is the great flood?

It might be interpreted as the mental mindset of humanity where we find ourselves fighting our intuitive instincts which is telling us that something is just not right but due to social pressures by powerful minority groups who drive global economies to fulfill self seeking ends we find ourselves glued into their web and must answer the call of duty. These people need no God, they are overlords in their own mind. We are contractors to them and must work for our pay. They in turn work us against each other and keep us indebted in a system of Usurpery. The end result may be a global system of oligarchal rulers and their empoverished worker class.

Then again the flood may be a physical event where the ocean released their bounty onto solid mass.

But the world is the property of a higher power yet than the leaders intentions and as the prophecies of the fifth world or of the Satya golden age of the Brahman Yugas predict the Greater one may have a higher order for humanity.

It's not difficult to find reports of natural and biological carnage in this age and as we head towards 2012 the natural tendency of men to look towards leaders who will guide them through such calamities will only increase.
But what will be the intention of the leaders? Where will the exodus lead to?
Is the caudal ball of fire a comet that we have yet to witness, will it be a cosmic object such as Planet X, Niburu, or Wormwood reaching ever closer into the solar system to someday affect the paradigm or humanity?

Can people even prepare physically for such apocalyptic events or is the warning of the prophet of Notre Dame a clue to prepare the spiritual self.

There's no guarantee that there is a world beyond the physical world but i believe people who have faith in higher states of consciousness will fair better in the years leading up to 2012. There is no reason to fear death since there is no such thing as death. Eternity is a continuum.......