Daria Zharskaya “There was no longer any sense in the helpless evacuation signal - the hum, as it turned out, came from one of the neighbors, whose car had not yet gone under the water; in the pre-dawn haze it was clear that the water was coming quickly.” Illustration: fakilata Waking up from an evacuation signal, Alena takes refuge in the attic of her own house from the rising water.