Rescuers Evacuate Switzerland District – New York Times
Rescue workers completed an airlift evacuation of a half-submerged riverside district of the Swiss capital Thursday as large parts of central and southern Europe were hit by flooding that killed at least 42 people.
Brienz, Switzerland, was one of many areas of central and southern Europe that were hit by flooding. At least 42 people were killed.
Lucerne, Switzerland, was flooded as well.
Hardest hit was Romania with 31 victims, many of whom were trapped inside their homes and drowned as torrents of water rushed in. Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and Switzerland reported a total of 11 dead, but numbers were expected to climb as more bodies of the missing are recovered.
Across the Alps, military helicopters were ferrying in supplies to valleys cut off by flooding and evacuating stranded tourists — and even cows — isolated in mountain pastures by the rising waters.
But we don’t have to worry about global warming….
What’s it going to take, the floods to hit DC like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 40 Signs of Rain?
Wake up, America – wake up. Let’s stop quibbling over gay marriage and whose God is the bestest of all and get to work on the real issues that are going to dominate our future – like Global Warming.
Stupid Merkans – I’m sick of them.
“I know my own nation best. That’s why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I’m a patriot. A dangerous man.”
— Edward Abbey
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