Surfing on iron boards

In the mound, the peak of the strongest flood over decades is approaching. But the deep people - by definition - cannot be afraid of drowning

At 16 hours of Wednesday, the level of Tobol in the mound was 919 cm, adding 13 cm in the previous two hours. By six in the evening, it rose to 927, the increase in two hours is only 8 cm. All days before the night, the pace of stay of water has grown, now weakened. And this is a cautious hope.

And in the early morning of this day, April 17, having arrived per day by 1.2 meters, Tobol overcomes the mark of the “dangerous phenomenon” (OI). Such is the bureaucratic Novoyaz from the Ministry of Emergencies: OI for the mound is an excess of 850 cm. Before that, the line of the “unfavorable phenomenon” (Nya) was also taken on the way. Between unfavorable and dangerous it is different, here-one and a half meters. Everyone understands the semantic difference between seasonal floods and floods, including howling dogs and sheep that knock out fence in Koshara, but the Ministry of Emergencies explains. And he sets an example of how to express himself in response to the question of how things are: “Continuous OI”.

This flood claims to become a record over the past decades, the 2002 indicator (910 cm) has already been blocked. Tobol does not plan to linger on the achieved yet, the forecast of the Ministry of Emergencies: in the next day or two on the river near the mound, the level will continue; In connection with the passage of the waves of enlarged passes from the above Trinity and Karatomar reservoirs, an intensive growth with dynamics +30 ... +100 cm is expected by the Kurgan and Ketovsky district. The reservoirs are mentioned by those in the depths of Kazakhstan and its border with Russia (Chelyabinsk region).

Juggling with words, their replacements are games with emotions, psyche, with stress and panic.

When in the morning of Wednesday I watch the mark of current water, I experience something similar to what I experienced on February 24, 2022, I can’t believe it. Although I understand with my mind: it went to this. These are internal protective mechanisms.

It soon turns out that the state news portal, giving 919 cm at six in the morning, exaggerated 70 cm, and soon he will fix the mistake. Unlike other resources that reprinted these data, there were all the same 919 eight hours later. Either they are giving up, and the water stubbornly strives for these 919, reaching them by four o'clock in the afternoon, or these are mistakes, the impression: so that no one is relaxed, mobilized, evacuated, in general, in good shape.

And with his - not such a distant comparison. From any of my interlocutors in Kurgan, I do not hear the angry accusations of Kazakhstan, but in social networks and in conversations with visitors this is a lot: they say, “specially”; “So far, there were one country, no one was drowned”, etc.

The famous Kurgan Puppet Theater "Gulliver" before the flood showed the "Master Class in Puppeteers". And on April 13, the regional drama, in the midst of no less dramatic forecasts from the governor and mobilizing the city under a multi-day (and thus discredited) howl of sirens to strengthen and increase the protective dam, pleased the “Old Songs of the Main” performance with a concert. Indeed, something is relevant, something loses relevance, but something forever. We go a trace in the trace with grandfathers and great -grandfathers, as in the middle of the minefield, we do not wash off the water and traces to us, we go to the darkness of darkness from darkness to the darkness. With glimpses of modest joys.

“That's why he is a mound that he, sorry, is always *** (crains), but he somehow holds on,” says a friend (all his life here). Well, yes, the deep people - by definition, since it is already at a depth - cannot be afraid of drowning.

We walk along the bridge to the flooded right bank (the cars are not allowed), look at the piles of garbage raised by water, plastic bottles, boards, boxes swaying on the waves. In social networks, pictures of refrigerators, street toilets, demolished bridges floating to the ocean are published. Geese-obviously, not from the south, who arrived, not wild, but escaping from someone's courtyard-go at a distance, examine new lands. The geese police bypasses and drives us back to the left bank.

I move to the right bank along another bridge and observe the salvation from the flooded garages of a rare winter - Soviet luxury, under Stalin, designed and launched into the series, likes the “cadillacs” and “Buyiks”, a six -seater and six -end long sedan of a representative class. As I understand it, the customer of salvation is not the owner, but a person who is trying to restore him, rushing at Gelik with a very fashionable number. Winter cannot get to the evacuator platform, and rescuers from Ugra, unloading on the side of the highway, decide to “help grandfather”, raise a car, put in place.

Water arrives, the tow truck rushes to the city, followed by Gelik.

Macondo and Pelicages God

On April 16, from two days with short breaks in the city, rain pours. Macondo. With all the ensuing. The southern wind up to 14 meters per second, twisting small whirlwinds, drives water to the mound. It is not dark - toad, for Tobol very fast. In the evening, the embankment floods the rain or water already protrudes from the ground. By night, the police will simply block the embankment at the Kirov bridge: the clay shafts are blurred, the water from all sides is from above, from the bottom, it does not approach, but it is nearing (the next day the governor will say that “do not walk here”).

Before that, I see how water is pumped out of the wells at the Vorobyovy Mountain shopping center, the sleeves are stretched into the river. Groundwater rose? In this shopping center there are many network magazines, Pyaterochka, around the building they began to lay an autonomous shaft of bags, but they threw, apparently, realizing that the buyers could not pass. A video appears in social networks how in Shevelevka at the Magnit Tobol “seeps through the storm”: indeed, the reverse craving gurgles.

Well, where to go to the water from the storm, if the river is to the brim? “It will run from the toilets soon,” the public comments.

Such days. Contrast, polar moods. In the rapidly flooded Kulak district, the sirens almost do not turn it off, and the inhabitants complain precisely on this howl, and not on the water, “turn on seven times in a row, although earlier every 10 minutes”. In the very center of the mound, granny granny are trying on a plastic film that shelter sands with sand-part of the film was torn off by the wind. In social networks a video appears, shot late at night. A lonely man, passing by, sees an almost invisible violation of the level of the embankment and, returning, drags a bag of 50 meters on the hump, puts it. It goes on. “Now is a great time, we can envy us! Everything around is so bad that doing something good is very simple ”-so the rector of the Ivolginsky datsan recently said.

In the evening of the 15th, in the last hours in front of Nya (unfavorable phenomenon) and OI (dangerous phenomenon), on the embankment-crowds of the idle people. The tails of dogs, pigeons, and magpies sweep the tails with tails. The bags are laid, waiting. Ladies exchange their impressions: "The second day of the city, I met all my acquaintances." Pelicans fly in the sky with a line. Hence it is not clear, pink or curly (although these birds are large, one beak half a meter, wingspan up to 3.6 m). Those and others here, in the Kurgan region, live - homeland, fly to India and Africa for the winter. Other returning birds fly over the river to the river, brighten this evening to the Kurganians, brighten up this mournful landscape as a song.

Obviously, large water in the homeland for pelicans and ducks in joy. The awakened flies-juki are buzzing. Wolves of howling sirens are silent when I turn off the embankment in the Central Bank, here also howls something: children are drilled with an electric drill birch-collect juice.

Frogs appeared, cheerfully jumping. Is frog or pelicing the God of our human, human? Maybe we are habitually exaggerating our meaning? Apparently, we have the surrounding nature without reciprocity, it so far resolves issues in the interests of amphibians and water, birds and all other fauna and flora. God loves geese and toads.

The Kurgans cheer up each other in social networks: “I already removed my legs by the ironing board. When the wave comes ( repeatedly promised by the authorities. - A. T.), we will surpite on the ironing board. Nobody knows how, we will study. I will start the alarm clock for every hour, as soon as the comb goes, wake up all the neighbors, take the boards, drive away the cars to the botanical and fly to the cars in the wave and go to work. ” Well, yes, what remains: drama is enough from April 7, when the warning of the population went in waves.

It is important that this parapence, intimidation on increasing - non -alternative in the public field, other sources of information, except for official or, completely from the authorities, the public lost her herself, except for social networks (and then with a certain caution),. Therefore, questions, for example, about potential danger from flooded uranium wells, hang . And no one believes anyone, and when the governor speaks of possible 11 meters in the mound, or even higher, the people grunt or laugh.

Sirens howl again. “It seems to me that we are accustomed to something else,” says someone in a walking crowd.

Children on scooters and bicycles cannot drive - people are moving so tightly. For coffee and cocoa in a kiosk on the embankment.

Few people believe in the seriousness of danger, governor's forecasts, even if they believed, they are tired of being afraid. And flooding of summer cottages and outskirts are traditional. They would say, they say, to each other, medals for the salvation of the mound, and all on this: the Minister of Emergencies Kurenkov praises the mound “for a good, well -coordinated work - she is very striking, and she is done competently, clearly.”

And he rushes to me, desperately wagging its tail, a big black dog and, leaving me no options, jumps on me like a native one, looking for my hands and my hands, gets into my unfastened jacket, wants to hide there. A guy with a girl from whom he came off and ran to me, shrugs: "Lost." Having carefully looked into my guilty eyes, breaks away and from me, runs on to other people.

Now there are a lot of such dogs, they run around the bridges from the flooded right -bank, from cottages and country houses and look for their former life, it does not find it - its traces have already crossed off. Dogs are scared, it seems, is much more people. Trans -Urals has yet passed the well -known campaign - the veterino -adopted law on euthanasia of homeless animals. Five additional PVR “for overexposure of animals from flooding zones” was discovered in the mound, built a hundred booths and the calls are constantly sounding during the evacuation to release animals from the leash.

Right now, dogs are taken out of dozens of SNTs. Of course, they understand everything. They themselves go to the rescuers. When the water only came in, one bitch met rescuers at the entrance and led them to her Konura for a long time, where there were several puppies.

And still, from the cottages on that shore, the barking of abandoned dogs comes. It is they who are not angry with us - they bark at the water.

Cow's distillation in Glinks

In Glinka - the outskirts of the Kurgan microdistrict - from the early morning of Wednesdays began to evacuate calves and cows, 1300 goals. They are distilled by several streams, their own, along the corridor of local residents. They stand with brooms, some with twigs. It would seem - what is complicated, what is the event. Firstly, the fact that these cows never went a herd, were not on a free graz, and secondly, in the status of these animals: here is a federal plant for breeding the Holstein and black and qualifier breeds of cows. The cows here are not fed with chocolate and are not clogged with champagne.

“The Dutch cows spoiled, they don’t breathe on them, they tremble over them,” says Lyubov Ivanovna. - If only around the farm they were sometimes released, they were never released, they never visited the pasture. And where are the mouth? All meadows and pastures are built up with dachas ( the fields where hay for cows are assembled - 80 km from farms with cows. - A. T. ). And now they are afraid that they will scatter, that’s the name of the volunteers - to stand a living corridor. Drive two kilometers from strength, on the hill.

The attitude towards this plant in the mound, as to his native, talk about the ups and downs in his formation, early dead owner, is now ruled by her son. They praise-all around-Glinka products, "only, apparently, because of the flood, too-in polyethylene, milk is already 79 rubles, pensioners at the" magnet "for 71-this is in the Glinks themselves." I rushed to stand in a living corridor, but the owner, weighing the stress of stress and the risks of flooding, the distillation on the hill is put off from day to day. The equipment is only driven there. And when the water approaches, Glinkov’s track is hopelessly clogging with a traffic jam - I will be late. Nevertheless, the locals send the video: cows are running normally, they are also running.

The last news from Glinka: there are evacuated by Metropolis (local trading network), water came close to the building.

Kurgan Rublevka and nearby

Stronger than the mound, drowning (water level there is almost one and a half meters more) Ketovo and Ketovsky district. They are slightly above the mound with the flow. There is a Kurgan ruble. But class joy is hindered by the fact that there are also suburban houses and cottages of local intelligentsia, doctors, teachers, and indeed a large number of Kurganians, the most ordinary families.

Monologue of a pensioner, doctor Viktor Petrovich:

- My wife and my wife were taken to the city of relatives. Since I already walk badly, I did not want to become someone in a burden. And they immediately told us: when everything begins, they can forget about you. Our neighbors remained until the last, we called up. And last night, from there they were already forcibly evacuated ( 46 streets, the whole village. - A. T. ). And what to do there now? Electricity was turned off for a long time, the gas was still supplied, but now, probably, everything, and it was cut down. We have a high place, but all the entrances to it always flooded it, and now it began like this, but now the water has come to the house. The bathhouse, she is slightly lower, flooded - this is the neighbors tell, they sent a video.

We will survive. There, on the floor, a carpet, which was bought by blat back in the Soviet years. A whole secret operation, what, you drove up from the black move ... will rinse, nothing.

While there were, sirens - yes, turned on, I heard them. The neighbor says that they went home, and they knocked on us, warning about evacuation, but I did not hear a knock. The call works. The neighbor later came, said that they were going, to be ready.

When we were built-back in the 90s, we saw dams, strengthened the shores, defended. And never drowned us. Around - yes. We are not. From our house to Tobol, several kilometers of former state farm plantations have already built up something. But there are lakes, old people.

The element is the element, says the governor, and this is so, but he draws the conclusions incorrect. Well, they will take off the dam in the poplars - this is the ruble of the Kurgan, and the water will come from the other side. There are no techniques in such areas against her. It will come from where they did not expect. Water, over there, through the Uvalskoye highway goes the other way. It is necessary to clean the river channel. The next year it will flood even more.

Life, of course, is violated. If I was full of strength and energy, then I would have spit on, everything would be restored. And now ... the worst that now will be repeated. Water found a hole.

The routes laid out. Even in our reinfected mound, the Ministry of Emergencies has a four -story building, stuffed with cabinets, sit, think. And you ask the question - there is no answer.

Today I was told that Noskov died on his own and was already buried ( Alexander Noskov is the former head of the Ketovsky district. - A. T. ). He was imprisoned for fraud with the water supply - he signed the act of work performed, and the water supply was never built. But this was the last drop. Before that, there is fraud with the ground, bribes. But the people praise him, they lived normally with him. A new stadium, school, albeit with shortcomings, at home for orphans. Be that as it may, they put him. And he could not in prison, left for his. And folded his head. What is the unfortunate fate of a person.

... Here the technique is good now. I remember in the USSR to Belozerka (the village of Belozerskoye in the Kurgan region) received a challenge through the sanavianization - Baba gives birth. And all the roads flooded with a flood, they are there like on an island. Well, they gave us an amphibian from a military school. I came to us from the boss, we loaded. And she is the elder of the German war, passes three meters - stops. When they arrived, it turns out that she was transported on a boat. Or, in Mokrousovo (also a settlement in the region), it was necessary to fly, a sick there, but there is no weather. And the roads were not yet asphalt. At the KZKT (Kurgan wheel of wheel tractors) they asked for an all -terrain vehicle. We answer, without Moscow, we cannot. Coordination is needed. They didn’t wait for them, flew out - there was a small clearance in the weather. KZKT is no more. In its place, shopping and entertainment centers, technopark, housing are being built.

... And this water supply from Noskov was not so long ago launched. True, no one suggested connecting him to him. In front of our house they put a column. But they do not give water into it. Because who will pay for her?

Since the zone is now filled with us, then the house is not to be sold.

Viktor Petrovich finishes the story, and together we watch the video that came as a new development - the all -terrain vehicle “Burlak” - blows the current, like an empty canister, cannot cope with it. И как раз показывают доклад губернатора Шумкова Владимиру Путину: «Наиболее сложная ситуация в Кетовском округе. Эвакуированы более 14 300 людей». Шумков предлагает ограничить действие дачной амнистии и маткапитала для жилых объектов в подтопляемых зонах; следить за водой с помощью Роскосмоса; заранее готовить карты потенциальных зон подтопления для постоянной готовности к эвакуации.

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