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Navek
Joined: 01/06/2008
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Message Posted:
10/09/2009 08:11 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 6 in Discussion |
| At least 23 people have been killed and a number of others are missing after flash floods in north-west Turkey.
The flooding struck districts in and around Turkey's largest city of Istanbul, swamping houses and roads.
Cars were swept away and some drivers were trapped inside their vehicles.
TV pictures showed roads near Istanbul's main airport submerged by deep water.
The flooding was caused by two days of torrential rainfall - the worst in 80 years.
Follow link for video & more....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8245699.stm
Navek |
NatAless
Joined: 31/03/2009
Posts: 789
Message Posted:
10/09/2009 08:14 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 2 of 6 in Discussion |
| Hi,
I have been watching on the news the past 2 days, does anyone know if there is anything we can do to help these people/make a donation, it's devastating.
Natx |
adagirl
Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 371
Message Posted:
10/09/2009 08:45 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 6 in Discussion |
| When there are disasters like this, turkcell often make donations for you from your phone, hopefully they will be texting all their customers soon - you reply to the text and 5 tl is donated and charged to your phone. How many times you reply is up to you. I was in Istanbul a couple of mths ago, its so heavily populated its a miracle really that there weren't more deaths. |
phylray
Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727
Message Posted:
10/09/2009 10:57 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 4 of 6 in Discussion |
| Just saw this last night after friend here phoned me. It looks bad. I emailed my friend in Istanbul
to see how they were. Luckily for them they live in high rise flats but they are near Ataturk airport.
Will be staying there myself next month for few days en route to Kibris. |
phylray
Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727
Message Posted:
10/09/2009 13:34 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 5 of 6 in Discussion |
| Just heard from friends, who are fine, but say they had never seen anything like it in Istanbul
Their met. office gave warning of it but no-one believed it, even though they are "100% accurate"!
Government are helping them and things are getting better but more heavy rain is forecast.
There have been the first heavy autumn rains in Kibris too, and warnings about flooding of patios at TBV |
Cyprusquest
Joined: 09/12/2008
Posts: 428
Message Posted:
11/09/2009 11:56 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 6 of 6 in Discussion |
| Affected Pegasus badly from what I have heard |
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