major rainstorm leaves 5000 without water/gas, 500 homeless

[donsu]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?id=9622&lang=eng


A major rainstorm in northern Argentina has left at least 5,000 people without water and gas, and 500 more homeless, Argentina's Civil Protection Authorities said on Monday. Due to the storm some canals overflowed, flooding homes and damaging infrastructure in the north of Salta province, 1,500 km northeast of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, mostly affecting Pocitos, Araguay and Salvador Mazza areas. "Above average rainfalls led to rivers breaking their banks and carrying off people's homes and livestock. It also uprooted the gas mains in Salvador Mazza; so we are left with neither drinking water nor gas," said local mayor Francisco Ibanez. The provincial government has sent aid to residents and declared a state of emergency in the affected areas.
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5000 going without water - sounds like Baghdad

when it starts raining. . . you never know how things will end up

[aquart]

1. Get used to it.

And you might want to start converting the ark specs into metrics.

[Theres-a]

2. Awful.

Floods are terrifying.