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This Is What Global Warming Is
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sat Apr 15, 2006 @ 1:33pm |
 Coolness: 145310 | BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuters) -- The Danube rose to its highest level in more than a century on Saturday, but the breaching of a dam in Romania eased pressure on towns and villages struggling to hold back the floods, officials said.
Rivers fed by heavy rain and melting snow crept higher across the Balkans for the fourth straight day, driving people from their homes and swamping low-lying farmland and ports. Waters rose to an 111-year high in the Romanian town of Bazias, near the Serbian border, flooding around 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of farmland on the Danube's northern bank. The river also flooded the small port of Bechet, while soldiers and civil defense workers scrambled to reinforce dykes and build sandbag barriers on both sides of the river. Romania's government started controlled flooding to divert water, flowing near a record 15,800 cubic meters per second, away from low-lying villages and was helped by the collapse of a dam in southwestern Romania which flooded farmland. "The water flow has fallen by 200 cubic meters per second. This is a success," Beatrice Popescu, of the Environment Ministry, told Reuters. In all, Romania plans to submerge about 90,000 hectares of fertile soil on a 250 mile (400 kilometer) stretch on the Danube's northern bank, a major area for wheat and maize farming. The Balkans are still recovering from devastating floods last summer, which killed scores of people and caused hundreds of millions of euros in damage to farmland and infrastructure. This time, floods have submerged hundreds of houses, leaving thousands homeless and leaving tens of thousands more at risk. Officials said the Danube's level should remain high until Wednesday and Thursday, but the controlled flooding in Romania appeared to keep its level steady in many places, giving a reprieve to some towns that had been partially submerged. In the Bulgarian port city of Lom, 120 soldiers came to reinforce civil defense workers, but water levels were unchanged at a record 29 feet (9.45 meters). "There is no reason to panic," Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev told reporters. "We are ready to evacuate people if there's a need, but I hope it will not happen." In Serbia, the floods killed their first victim in the village of Stari Kostolac on Friday where water reached the roofs of 200 houses. The Danube's level dropped in the city of Novi Sad, but authorities braced downstream in Belgrade for a eastern-moving floodwave, which originated in central Europe. At the village of Mosorin on the Tisa river, 250 people worked to shore up dykes at critical spots. Agriculture Minister Ivana Dulic Markovic said the berms could fail and told officials to prepare for evacuation, Beta news agency reported. "We are all mobilized and what is left now is for us to trust in God that all will end well," she was quoted as saying. Hundreds of citizens and soldiers also worked overnight to build an embankment in the eastern town of Smederevo after water inundated its ancient fortress, port and train station. The Agriculture Ministry said 223,000 hectares of farmland were under water but could not estimate damages until later. Back in Romania's western county of Timis, the country's worst hit region in last year's floods, some who were displaced last year were again visited by disaster. "If the government expected floods again this year, why did they move us here?" Ioan Subulescu, whose new house has been partially flooded, told the Evenimentul Zilei paper. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» RedVodka replied on Sat Apr 15, 2006 @ 2:39pm |
 Coolness: 44765 | no.. this is called spring... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sun Apr 16, 2006 @ 12:23am |
| Coolness: 145310 | think so...i disagree every year in the spring there is more and more flooding all across the world... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Sun Apr 16, 2006 @ 12:24am |
 Coolness: 339775 | the earth has cycles it undergoes..
we're not killing the planet, we're just affecting it.. and in all likelyhood, we'll end up killing ourselves.. but the earth will continue on no problem.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sun Apr 16, 2006 @ 3:45am |
| Coolness: 145310 | i agree there are cycles...but i think pumping CO2 into the atmosphere for so long can't be good...The truth is we don't know how the machine (the earth) works well enough to really say...interesting to note that there was a time when there was no polar ice caps on either the north or south pole and at that time there were jungles on the antarctic continent... |
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