8 July 2012

Official Cause of Russian Killer Flood Challenged

A sends:

Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:50:18 +0300
Subject: Weird flood in southern Russia, over 150 dead

Some interesting counterweight from Russia:

These links:

http://www.newsru.com/russia/08jul2012/skrflood.html

and

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fvk.com%2Fwall160960523_52

are describing the standpoint little bit differing from the official (Russian) opinion, claiming the flood was technogenic, as of the choice for officials was either Krymsk will be flooded or a much more bigger city - Novorossisk - will

The key sentence in the cached doc is:

[Russian omitted.]

The approximate translation: Everybody is silent now, but my father was on duty that night and the commission met in a hurry to decide whether or not to open the gates of the Neberdzhajev Dam.

While the official standpoint is that the dam does not have "such type" of gates.