Moldova Flood Update
Judging by the traffic coming on my blog yesterday, I concluded that many of you readers have ended up here through your search for information, in English, about the flooding in Moldova. So, here is an update. Keep in mind I am not an official news source, nor am I the government, nor do I live in an area of Moldova affected by the flooding - everything I am reporting to you I either heard somewhere, or saw on tv -- consider this a tertiary source of information.
Yesterday, my host mother and I went to a neighbors house to watch the news, specifically "Moldova 1" - the National Moldovan television station, report on the flooding. It seems like the Northern regions were hit the most - both on the sides of the Nistru (Ukraine) and the Prut (Romania). Many houses are completely submerged in water. Many people have been evacuated, in some cases whole villages. Kids and students who were at summer camps next to the river were evacuated to nearby schools. Right now, the government is worrying that the levels of water will rise further in Vadilui Voda, a village next to Ukraine and right on the river Nistru -- in this village the water supply for the capital is located, and if waters get too high, the whole system will go out.
It seems like the army and national guard are doing a good job of housing and evacuating people. Most people were able to get out on time - and people are volunteering with their boats to patrol the danger zones. Right now, they are just waiting to see what the weather does. But it seems very orderly. We also saw on the news that the newest worry associated with flooding was the diseases that could be transmitted by the dead animals. They are vaccinating people, but the report was in Russian, and I didn't really understand what, specifically, they are vaccinating people against.
From drought to flood. No one understands the weather this year.
Yesterday, my host mother and I went to a neighbors house to watch the news, specifically "Moldova 1" - the National Moldovan television station, report on the flooding. It seems like the Northern regions were hit the most - both on the sides of the Nistru (Ukraine) and the Prut (Romania). Many houses are completely submerged in water. Many people have been evacuated, in some cases whole villages. Kids and students who were at summer camps next to the river were evacuated to nearby schools. Right now, the government is worrying that the levels of water will rise further in Vadilui Voda, a village next to Ukraine and right on the river Nistru -- in this village the water supply for the capital is located, and if waters get too high, the whole system will go out.
It seems like the army and national guard are doing a good job of housing and evacuating people. Most people were able to get out on time - and people are volunteering with their boats to patrol the danger zones. Right now, they are just waiting to see what the weather does. But it seems very orderly. We also saw on the news that the newest worry associated with flooding was the diseases that could be transmitted by the dead animals. They are vaccinating people, but the report was in Russian, and I didn't really understand what, specifically, they are vaccinating people against.
From drought to flood. No one understands the weather this year.
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on Saturday, August 02, 2008 at 3:12 PM.
