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only. did. the. same as the people of crete sc in russia so a belief farewell to the victims of the devastating floods. one hundred seventy one perished in the disaster. and the real service is being held at some michael the archangel cathedral the church has never seen such a huge crowd of mourners before. is

in her eighty's over the past twenty years she's lived and served at a church in the riverside city of crimps. on july the seventh a seventy two wave smashed through the city. ended up locked in her room when her chances of survival seem slim with the water coming up to the ceiling fan and xander appeared on his boat out of the blue as if by divine intervention he broke the window swam up to her and dragged her into the boat. say father alexander. i just cannot tell myself. i still have that image in my mind. if it were not for him i would have died.

on the night of july the sixth. went to bed totally unaware of the fact that just a few hours later it would turn into a real nightmare for them. the deluge rushed in at an incredible speed as if it were a tsunami. it took just a few minutes for the water to rise up to one meter. just a couple of hours later it reached the seventy to mark there was practically no time to rescue the people trapped by the onslaught. so i feel sorry for those who perished or were left without a home. there was mostly the elderly and disabled who died. father alexander is only twenty seven he's helping to deliver humanitarian aid for the flood victims the bad guys this is the only thing is nobody is going to take it if we leave it here let's go to the church where there are people who really need

it or are you let's go alexander's father is also a priest and a church rector together they saved around fifty people on that horrific night. no one ever thought that such a thing would happen to us but if people had been informed probably more them would have survived or both of. their own professional rescue is among the church congregation before the flood they'd been told that the major disaster was expected to strike the resort city of galle inject that's where the main forces were assembled. ever was totally unprepared for the flooding. as a result there were no emergency rescue teams in the city we only had a few patrols they had no bodes they had nothing. now all time and energy is devoted to distributing humanitarian aid coming in from across

russia people hit by the flood come to the church to get food and other basic necessities. but does anybody need any biscuits over here. what an awful situation i don't remember any time when people took so much thing. goodness we have things to give. the first days after the flood the church saw an enormous number of people lining up to organize funeral services more than a dozen people were buried each day. a great number of deaths. was seventy three for the past few years she'd been paralyzed after a stroke. trying to escape the flood the daughter natalia to sit her mother on a bed in order to survive she managed to savor this weight in two thousand and two

when there was another flood in crimps. however back then the water only came up to me level. and we only had twenty minutes we had to climb to the very top of the roof how could we have saved her. people were sitting on tree branches we were sitting naked on the roof there was no warning whatsoever the lights had gone off people behaved as if they had lost their minds when lifted her up put her in a sitting position but what else could we do the water was flowing in very quickly . and the husband their daughter son in law and two grandchildren spent all night sitting on the roof in the rain it was impossible to save their parent. everyone would have died. please

come down stop it it's not our fault come down stop it stop crying remember how we were sitting on the truth oh how we screamed. the following day the rain continued unabated streets looked like my. and in rivers the flow of water destroyed houses and carriages cars weigh several tons were tossed around like toys . crims nights in a valley surrounded by mountains torrents of rain falling raging rivers filled with a slurry of dirt and mud the small city stood no chance. when the flood struck only food in was at work at a bakery his wife was waiting for him at home. she was pregnant and could go into

labor at any moment by the time he got back to his house the water was up to his waist but. when i arrived she had already started screaming. what they've. seized. the door was locked and i was so much water that it was impossible to open the door. other than i opened it the water rushed in. but. it was already pouring from outside the windows. there were then there was already that much water here he carried his wife out in his arms already the street to become a deep river there were no rescuers it was dangerous to walk any further and then his wife went into labor. alone that she was only wearing a dressing gown. i told her to sit on my shoulders. trying to do so but it was too

painful for her so i took her by the hand and we started walking away from this place. the neighbors tried to escape the flood by any means possible some climbed up on to roofs others scramble for trees oleg's labor marina lost everything overnight she has spent several days trying to clean. the dirt and mud from her apartment. that is if you look at what's left of how my going to replace all of those things now i've been working all my life i've been paying bills all my life why did this happen to me where am i going to get all this stuff from now. marina does not know what to do whether to clean up the filth and wait for a commission to decide if she can get a new holes. to run to the local administration office to get compensation for the property she lost. now we have to deal with all the smog and

nobody gives a damn about us. she does not have any energy to deal with the consequences of the flood. you know we act like fools trying to get something well nobody seems willing to help us and it turns out that our house is not registered anywhere houses twelve and sixteen are i just said there was no house fourteen. of the used to be illegal so for right here. has spent a lot of time trying to find anything that wasn't swept away by the flood the only belongings he has left fit into one bag he takes them with him to the hospital to see his wife she had given birth to the son of guinea on the night of the flood. if you send my regards to fit lana try to keep your spirits up let me know if you need me i'll call you. will be waiting for your call. somehow

he managed to get his wife out of their flooded home but getting to the hospital was anything but easy. we were taken up the hill but the water kept rising which my wife kept saying she had intense pain we had to wait for an hour before the water came down a little early then could be taken to hospital. the water had broken. into. already knows that they have lost almost everything but this is not the first time when she has had to start from scratch. was raised as an orphanage she says that the worst is behind them the leg was just in time to save her if you arrive half an hour later she would have drowned but now she is happy. but.

it took us pretty long to get to the hospital i gave birth to my son attention fifteen now i go into our friend it is impossible to live in our apartment. i passed.

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workers from the emergencies ministry didn't reach the flooded neighborhoods of crimson until the morning after the flood. but rescuers and volunteers from almost all over russia converged on the small city in the crescent our region the day after the flood struck. more than that block take some of those boxes but not all of them. under me only all is from moscow he and his brother run a film company as soon as he heard news of the tragedy he boarded a bus for crims and was on the spot a day later. let's get to work guys. under i was joined by the administrator of the film company one of the rescue workers alexander

is held in high respect here because he was forty kilometers to be a frontline of the rescue operation. one of the men was due to go on holiday with his family three days after news of the flood came through but as soon as he heard about it and saw pictures of the tragedy he decided to come here you are not going his wife says are you crazy are you going to squander money from the family budget andré tossed the money on the table and made off without a penny in his pockets but when he got on the bus to join us he received a call from his wife saying i respect your choice you are hero life becomes easier after hearing such words. they're coming up to now tell you don't serve his house natalia just buried her mother the day before. they see no signs of a cleanup. well. let's start with the bricks and then we'll

clear the house from other things. saying they've got nothing left is an understatement they have no home you see that become even enter the house. who is helping them apart from us there seemed no sign of people from the emergencies ministry or authorities yet. there are a brick so on the exterior of the house but the inside is constructed of clay and straw everything in the home has caved in the floor the ceiling and partition moves they were unable to withstand the pressure of flood water. that water over here let's talk a list. this go has joined under a group of volunteers nobody knows her name or where she is from she just turned up

saying that she is here to give a helping hand. what how old is she i wonder hey how old are you twenty. she is just here to help i'm not a strong man i'm a psychologist i can give medical assistance how could i sit around a towel and watch t.v. for. three generations lived here under the same roof only a short one ago galena a daughter natalia and her husband and her granddaughter family. the grandmother perished in the flood their home is no longer fit for living in photos or the only reminders of their past life. and as we sat there we heard the rain water surge and higher and higher because here waves splashing in the house the most terrible experience of all was that one had no way of knowing

when it would and would the water just keep rising and rising. my mother has died she simply drowned. my neighbor has perished as well. about three hours before the flood was cut off from the town. nobody told the people that disaster was about to strike. the what it was as high as the ceiling grandmother was in bed unable to move i think a feat a heron's. would have had an hour at our disposal. loft but no we didn't have that much time on the water rushed in collapsed and we couldn't do anything to help her. clothing and food were in short supply in the first twenty four hours and so it was

information. quickly became awash with rumors about another flood coming soon along with thousands of bodies it was claimed that help would not come from anywhere. those rumors proved false with the entire turning into a rescue operation zone ordinary people as well as an impressive group of rescue workers and volunteers came to help they drew their cause to take foodstuffs and hope meals to the stricken population. could also our see it come over. yesterday they brought suit the day before it was forced and thrice with me a good joke we really appreciate it but i suppose i take some meals or her husband . has been unable to walk unassisted for more than two years but they are lucky there's some build a big house made of bricks during the soviet union at the time of the flood they found safety on the second floor. we have got gas grandpa here is your meal.

but i. have lived together for fifty six years their son yuri came to crimps from ukraine after his father had a heart attack followed by a stroke but he failed to get citizenship papers properly processed before the flood his request for compensation was turned down because technically he was a foreigner. but when president putin intervened on his behalf he was put on the list. is still a life is only due to this man during that ill fated night he also managed to save that elderly neighbor zena. she had spent the night holding on to a gas pipe to stay afloat when the water reached two meters in sixty centimeters in my house he tore the doors down smashed the windows interactors out i'm going to pray for him as long as i live. never mind granny zena important thing is that in your life. the authorities have promised to move all of the people affected by

the flood into new houses or apartments. but for the time being they would have to live either in temporary lodgings or in camps out in the open their shared grief has brought the people of crims closer together. i'm taking this course to my godmother when people cooked it and gave it away for free. then turn it on so his relatives went through the same ordeal as many others floodwater was already inside the house when they woke up during the night they couldn't get away from it and had to seek safety on the roof thankfully nobody died. recount culbert it everything is underwater. it's awful. we even have no time to eat. the family was saved when the dog woke them up with his barking everyone was relieved when they heard that their pet also recklessly

survived. and that we would have drowned for sure had it not been for the dog we all woke up when he started yapping and sell it thanks to the dog that where life. the team of volunteers led by. is now going to visit yet another home this time it's the house at seventy four street and xander the owner is in his sixty's. as he recalls that terrible night he can't understand how he had the strength to break a window fling a rope to his wife drag her out of the flooded room and up a tree together. there was not a single living saw around that night yet there was i could only hear people crying for help but it was impossible for an old fellow like me to help anybody truly i would have been stuck there for good if i had tried to. pull the

alexander survived the ordeal he can't clean the house out single handed. let's form a line and clean everything all the way to the far end. the house. southern russia has never seen a disaster of such massive proportions before crims cut to bury their dead help the injured clear out daybreak and remove dead animals from the streets all at the same time. but there's a wait is this hours oh no it isn't. with

another work day coming to a close the volunteers return to camp hot soup bread and team food await them that . these men came from moscow to spend three days helping three families under way feels that it was worth it one of the we have cleared out three houses six guys divided by three days it comes to about a house a day. finally sees the day when he gets to leave hospital with his wife atlanta and the new born son both the mother and the baby are in perfect health. olaide has never been so happy this is the first time that he is holding his child in his hands he hates to think about what might have happened if he'd been home for now late rescuing his wife. and welling

up. in front been just a tiny bit too late. and they're going to stay with friends in the nearby village of nova who crank up while the government builds a new house for them. oh legacy sure the worst is behind them and they are restarting their life from scratch one day they may tell their son about the tragedy. their cherished hope is that such a disaster will never happen again. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images the world

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