Big Lakes

Friday May 20, 2005 - 4:17PM EDT

I just read a news story that said a lake in Russia disappeared. Sounds surprising but I've heard of this happening before. Usually a sinkhole to an underground cave system drains the lake at an alarming speed so that it seems like the lake just disappeared. The interesting part of the story was a quote from a village that went somewher along the lines that she thought that american had got them finally when she saw the lake had gone. That quote highlights the danger of ignorance so well. I don't know whether the journalist was going for that angle or not though.