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deadly flooding in russia south with our special report. the. good. home. the people of crips in russia south ability farewell to the victims of a devastating flood. one hundred seventy one perished in the disaster. service is being held at some michael the archangel cathedral the church has never seen such a huge crowd of mourners before the. club

is in her eighty's over the past twenty years she's lived in served at a church in the riverside city of crim skate. on july the seventh a seventy two waves smashed through the city. club 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 drank to 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 presidential went to bed totally unaware of the fact that just a few minutes later it would turn into a real nightmare from. 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 is helping to deliver humanitarian aid for the flood victims. 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. and 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 save her this way in two thousand and two when there was another flood in crimps. however back then the water only came up to new levels. 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 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 paralyzed grandmother 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 way several tons were tossed around like toys. crims nights in a valley surrounded by mountains torrents of rain full raging rivers filled with a slurry of dirt and mud the small city stood no chance.

when the flood struck only phoned 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 almost up to his waist but. when i arrived she had already started screaming. what the panic had seized her. 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 without 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 trying 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 house or 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 registered by there is 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 their son 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 for water had broken. 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 at an orphanage she says that the worst is behind them the leg was just in time to save her if you arrived 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. on the money with the business of russia this.

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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 all region the day after the flood struck. such a moment that a bloke takes some of those boxes but not all of them. all is from moscow he and his brother run a film company as soon as you heard news of the tragedy he boarded a bus for crims and was only a day later. let's get to work guys. under i was joined by the administrator of the film company one of the. the workers alexander

is held in high respect here because he walked forty kilometers to be at the front line 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 and toss 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 tell you don't serve his house. just bury him of the day before. they see no signs of a clean. one. that starts with the bricks and then it will

clear the house from other things. saying i've got nothing left as an understatement there are 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 bricks on the exterior of the house but the inside is constructed of clay and straw everything in the home is 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 less. this girl 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. i wonder hey how old are you twenty. she's 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. . three generations live here under the same roof only a short one ago. the daughter natalia and her husband and her granddaughter family . their grandmother perished in the flood their home is no longer fit for living in photos of the only reminders of their past life. as we sat there we heard the rain water sochi 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 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 power was cut off from the town. nobody told the people the disaster was about to strike. the water was as high as the ceiling and our grandmother was in bed unable to move i think a feat a heron's is how wonders of hiding now are at our disposal. have moved her to a loft but no we didn't have that much time in the water rushed in the air thing 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 drove their cars to take foodstuffs and hot meals to the stricken population. could elsewhere see it come over. yesterday they brought the day before it was forced and thrice with me a good joke we really appreciate it but i support a guy takes a meal to her husband because he's 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. came to crist 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. twenty years to 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. the water reached two meters and sixty centimeters in the house she tore the doors down smashed the windows interactors out i'm going to pray for him as long as i live. never mind important thing is that 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. to turn it on so his relatives went through the same ordeal as many others flood water 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. can't help it gary thing 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's where life. the team of volunteers led by andre oriel 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. 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

survive 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 if you 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 tim food await them there . these men came from moscow to spend three days helping three families under a feels that it was worth it. we have cleared out three houses six guys divided by three days it comes to about a house a day. only followed him 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 half an hour late rescuing his wife. and welling

up. in front been just a tiny bit allayed. they're going to stay with friends in the nearby village of nova. 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. did full started here before going global and now it's pulling fire. log in.

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