[NEWS] 05/19/05 Lake disappears, baffling villagers

[deviant_kine]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.

NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.

"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.

Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

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BWAHAHAHA watch out Russia, we've come for your water!!!

[AMDave]

If that kind of power existed I doubt we'd be sucking down the water. I hear the vodka is the best.

I wonder if it has happened before...
It'll be interesting to see if it comes back up again.

"X-Treme Archeology report: ancient man reappears surfing geyser. Hangs Ten like an expert !!!"

[deviant_kine]

i'm still looking for a follow-up on this. i thought it was odd... i figured plate tectonics had something to do with it, but i'm not a geologist.