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.
Be My Blog 
Those wacky Americans
Is this like the plan to make Castro’s beard fall out, thereby causing him so much embarassment that he had to resign?
I mean, what the fuck? What does that mean?
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It’s all true.
He the latino Sampson, man.
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Compare and contrast: Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, which “disappeared” for a while in 1980 because of a mining accident.
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Crazy old Russians.
Meanwhile, a lake has suspiciously appeared outside of my window, along with some lovely trees and fish.
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They had nukes in that lake but we liberated them for freedom.
Also apple pie.
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