To the Hebrew mind, numbers have more significance than just the value we would ascribe to them. Each number is linked to a letter in the Hebrew Alphabet, and each number / letter has a particular symbolism. I don't have my reference material on hand right now, but from memory the number 40 is a combination of 4 and 10. These numbers both refer to completion, fullness and perfection. So when you see 40 days and 40 nights (or 40 years), it will most often be speaking of a particular event (eg. The Flood and Noah's Ark, raining for 40 days and 40 nights would be understood as raining until the whole earth was flooded)
it is a huge celebration that comes before everyone has to fast for 40days and 40nights
It is called lent, jesus prayed during lent for 40days and 40nights to his father during the temptations of satan.
it's unusual, but doesn't have to mean that there's something wrong.
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Assuming you're talking about the "great flood" in the book of Genesis in the bible, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. Which basically means it rained for 40days NON-STOP.
The Australian flood lasted for more than 40days
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2011 is not in the bible - not as a year, not as a number. It cannot, therefore, "mean" anything in the Bible.
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