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‘Devastating to See’: Russia\u2019s Orenburg Region Battles Historic Flood<\/a><\/h3>\n
Experts say the floods, which have caught the authorities off-guard and left many people to fend for themselves, are just a preview of what is yet to come in the climate crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n
A view of a flood-hit area in the town of Orsk.<\/span>Yegor Aleyev \/ TASS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ORENBURG REGION, Russia \u2013 Russia\u2019s southern Orenburg region has been grappling with its worst flooding in decades, with\u00a055<\/a>\u00a0cities and towns fully or partially flooded and thousands evacuated in an\u00a0unprecedented<\/a>\u00a0emergency.<\/p>\n

Footage from the cities of Orsk and Orenburg showed entire neighborhoods submerged underwater, with volunteers\u00a0and emergency workers\u00a0on inflatable dinghies rescuing people and animals trapped in their homes.<\/p>\n

Experts say the floods, which have caught the authorities off-guard and left many people to fend for themselves, are just the beginning of what is yet to come in the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scale of the flood is colossal. Many areas, many houses are underwater,\u201d said Oleg, a resident of Orsk, the Ural Mountains city hardest hit by the disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to rebuild and keep rebuilding. I think it will take a lot of time, but [it will be possible] if the authorities help people,\u201d he told The Moscow Times.<\/p>\n

In Orenburg, the regional capital, the river embankment, several neighborhoods and a few settlements outside the city have been submerged since the end of last week.<\/p>\n

Despite days of round-the-clock rescue efforts, there is still no end in sight to the crisis. Hydrologists\u00a0expect<\/a>\u00a0the Ural River to rise even higher in Orenburg on Wednesday, and the\u00a0Kremlin\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the neighboring Kurgan and Tyumen regions face \u201cdifficult days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia on Sunday\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0a federal state\u00a0of emergency in the Orenburg region, a move that allows federal forces to get involved in efforts to combat the flooding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘Devastating to See’: Russia\u2019s Orenburg Region Battles Historic Flood Experts say the floods, which have caught the authorities off-guard and left many people to fend for themselves, are just a preview of what is yet to come in the climate crisis. A view of a flood-hit area in the town of Orsk.Yegor Aleyev \/ TASS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1053,1001,34236,694],"class_list":["post-67238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-crisis","tag-flooding","tag-moscow-times","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67239,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238\/revisions\/67239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}