newyorker: Summer floods are common in this region, and yet the authorities were unprepared and under-equipped. They had at least three hours for an emergency warning: officials had learned about the imminent disaster around 10 P.M., and the water didn’t begin to rise dramatically until 1 A.M. But there was hardly any warning at all.  Masha Lipman: The public’s grief is now mixed with a deep distrust of the government after a horrific flood in southern Russia.  Click-through to read more: http://nyr.kr/NrpPCY Now reading. HIGH RES

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Summer floods are common in this region, and yet the authorities were unprepared and under-equipped. They had at least three hours for an emergency warning: officials had learned about the imminent disaster around 10 P.M., and the water didn’t begin to rise dramatically until 1 A.M. But there was hardly any warning at all.

 Masha Lipman: The public’s grief is now mixed with a deep distrust of the government after a horrific flood in southern Russia.  Click-through to read more: http://nyr.kr/NrpPCY

Now reading.

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∞  07/12/12 at 11:00am via newyorker.com
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