Now grief, rage and deep mistrust.
“Forty-six new graves were cut on Tuesday in a field outside this city, where catastrophic flooding has left behind a slime of mud and anger,” writes journalist Soren Dreier.
“Everyone here had a story of the pitch-black hours of Saturday morning, of being trapped inside homes as water rose to 6 and then to 8 and 10 feet, listening to the screams of neighbors and fear-maddened animals.
“So it came as a shock, and then as the focus of anger, when officials acknowledged that they had been aware of a threat to Krymsk at 10 the previous night, but had not taken measures to rouse its sleeping residents.
The official death count in the floods had risen to 172 by Tuesday.
“If they knew at 11, why didn’t they warn us? asked Sergei Viktorovich, 45. “What are we, hunks of meat? Are we not people?” he said, offering his patronymic, not his surname, because he said he feared retribution from the police.
“We are the young people, so we swam, but what about our grandmothers? How many grandmothers drowned?”
Whatever the ultimate repercussions — firings, compensation, criminal charges — a visit to Krymsk offers a view of the gap that has opened between Russians and their government.
“People don’t trust the authorities, on any subject — on natural disasters, or elections, or soccer,” said the journalist Oleg Kashin in a commentary on Kommersant FM radio.
See entire article:
http://zen-haven.dk/after-russian-floods-grief-rage-and-deep-mistrust/
Thanks to Laurel for this link
4 Responses to Russian flood kills 172 – Authorities knew it was coming but didn’t issue warning
SUNSPOTS
11 May - 4 sunspots
Credit: landscheidt.infoGood news! A publisher in Italy has now translated Not by Fire but by Ice into Italian.
La Prossima Era Glaciale
Available hereClick for full size
Ice Age Maps
Are You Prepared?
I recommend this DVD
Warmer during most of
the past 10,000 years
- 528,899
Unique
VisitorsPowered By
I am not sayin’ nuthin’! Just mindin’ my own business;)
Such a tragedy though. Made even worse if a warning could have been issued. Pray for the familys.
I know how angry and hurt they feel.
A flood came through my town and my home copped it, I had been awake all night worried, listening to river, checking drains gutters etc.
exhausted fell asleep at 11am.
Locals came into town from the next town upstream to warm ONLY their own family..no police came to sound sirens no fire alarm rung to warn us.I had a pile of sandbags ready stored in shed. at 12pm the river came down the rd and through my home.
with as little as 3 to 5 minutes warning I wouldnt have lost everything I owned.
and then.. later just on sunset,the news crews turned up came in to film, left the door open and let my dogs and puppies out in the floodwaters, imagine being in the cold an dark up to your knees in water in muddy paddocks alongside a raging river, hearing trees falling in screaming for your furry kids…
One has to feel for the Russians, they are Human Beings, just like us, and most likely with a harder life to live.
“What are we, hunks of meat? Are we not people?”, too the Global Criminal Elites (GCE), that is all we, the working classes are.
In the UK, you can start to hear, MP’s and Lords using the term the ‘under-class’. What to the GCE and their sycophantic officals care if we suffer and die, whether it be in natural or man made disasters.