Re: disappearing lake?
A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight. <br /><br />NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.
