It really is quite big, isn't it ... All penned by hand, too. Quite the system they've had going here since what appears to be time immemorial.

[ or at the very least for as long as they've had written records of things. ]

And yet, no permanent solutions for it. Are there simply none to be found... or is it that they would they be out of a job should the Calamity be dealt with once and for all?