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Fri 20 May, 2005 11:58 am
Quote:Russian lake disappears, baffling villagers
19 May 2005 16:56:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house
See the perception the world has of America these days?
...but not that I think America did it though...
LOL! Thats bizarre. Sounds like a Russian movie.
Kind of eye-popping that someone would even think "oh it's the Americans".
Yikes.
I seem to recall a story about a lake in Louisiana being sucked dry after something punctured a salt dome that was beneath it.
Re: America did it!...of course they did.
candidone1 wrote:Quote:Russian lake disappears, baffling villagers
19 May 2005 16:56:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house
See the perception the world has of America these days?
It wasn't that long ago when the perception of Russia by Americans wasn't so good either.
Re: America did it!...of course they did.
Brand X wrote:candidone1 wrote:Quote:Russian lake disappears, baffling villagers
19 May 2005 16:56:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house
See the perception the world has of America these days?
It wasn't that long ago when the perception of Russia by Americans wasn't so good either.
That's right...and remember why they weren't held in such high esteem?
Re: America did it!...of course they did.
candidone1 wrote:Brand X wrote:candidone1 wrote:Quote:Russian lake disappears, baffling villagers
19 May 2005 16:56:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house
See the perception the world has of America these days?
It wasn't that long ago when the perception of Russia by Americans wasn't so good either.
That's right...and remember why they weren't held in such high esteem?
Because of their history.
Just their history?
...or something to do with their history.
I don't know much about the former USSR.
candidone1 wrote:Just their history?
...or something to do with their history.
I don't know much about the former USSR.
Yes, the old USSR, I remember when I was a kid everyone feared them...nuclear threat etc. And their brand of communism.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I know and remember.
Seems that the same is being said these days about the US and their brand of democracy, IMO
I'm picturing it now. America has a giant pipeline that sucks the water right out of Russia!
Rest of the world better watch themselves, huh? We'll drain their lakes, dry up their rivers, and flood their picnics.
candidone1 wrote:Yeah, that's pretty much what I know and remember.
Seems that the same is being said these days about the US and their brand of democracy, IMO
Tell that to the folks in Georgia.
roger wrote:Rest of the world better watch themselves, huh? We'll drain their lakes, dry up their rivers, and flood their picnics.
Yeah, it's like a giant straw with a big fat American mouth at the other end of it. We just go about sucking everyone dry. Oh, the image is killing me.
FreeDuck wrote:roger wrote:Rest of the world better watch themselves, huh? We'll drain their lakes, dry up their rivers, and flood their picnics.
Yeah, it's like a giant straw with a big fat American mouth at the other end of it. We just go about sucking everyone dry. Oh, the image is killing me.
Ross Perot-"You hear that giant suckin' sound?"
FreeDuck wrote:I'm picturing it now. America has a giant pipeline that sucks the water right out of Russia!
California is in need of water and they can't get any more from the Colorado river.
Hey, now we're guilty of things we didn't do! Yay!
Yes, I'm sure our presumed innocence in stealing their lake compares with their country's absolute guilt in running the Gulag forced labor camps, where they sent the political and religious dissenters. Clever of you to see that.
Memo to America:
Don't bother with us in Oz, we've only got salt lakes so please direct your pipeline thingie to wet Europe
What about the trees falling? What were they talking about? Were the trees in the lake and fell due to the draining?
OR
Was it CODEBORG?????
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