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Lake disappears, baffling villagers
What are we up to on Signs and Portents?
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
"Volodya, have you seen the lake?"
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.
Hellgate. Gotta be.
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.
looks like Granny blames Bush...
LEavE OnE mILLioN RuBLes iN sMaLL bILLs oR yOU wIll nEVer SEe YoUR LaKE aliVE aGain!

Posted by: tu3031 2005-05-19
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