About flood and trust

For me, the topic of trust has recently become the most important one. In the Krymsk story, the authorities can tell the truth as much as they want. Nobody believes them anyway. Cases when peaceful rivers, due to heavy rains in the mountains, turned into monsters destroying everything in their path are well known. The Arno River in Florence in 1966 caused such destruction that then half of Europe came to Italy to help clean the dirt from countless Florentine monuments. And if you look at this Arno, it’s impossible to imagine anything bad.

So this is about trust. Whether or not there was a discharge of water from the reservoir turns out to be not so important - there is a presumption of guilt and deceit of the authorities. Even if they tell the truth about heavy rains in the mountains, no one believes them anyway. How to change this situation? You will probably have to practice lying for several decades.

And one more thing. The cops are standing there, protecting the city from looters, the owners of some shop are standing there, trying to protect what’s left. And I remembered Japan and the fact that after the earthquake there was not a single case of looting. And here someone said that the earthquake was sent to the Japanese as punishment. It's embarrassing to even remember.

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