Why so little coverage of the 100 year floods in the Balkans - three months' rain in three days

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/17/floods-serbia-bosnia-rain-balkans
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Record flooding in the Balkans has left least 20 people dead in Serbia and Bosnia and is forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Meteorologists say the flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago and is due to three months' worth of rain falling on the region in three days. Goran Mihajlovic from Serbia's Weather Centre said such rainfall happens once in 100 years.

In the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina, some 10,000 people were being evacuated on Saturday after the rain-swollen river Sava surged through flood defences.

Officials in Bosnia said 12 people had died and more bodies could emerge as the water recedes from dozens of cities flooded in the past three days.

In some places, the water had reached the second floor of people's homes and they had to be rescued by helicopter from their roofs.
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Remember climate change is a myth!!

[malthaussen]

1. Same thing happened in the Danube and Elbe valleys last year.

There were some news items about the body count and property damage. I guess the M$M has other concerns.

-- Mal

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Thanks for posting this.

I had not heard of it.

[hatrack]

3. Far-away countries, and people with too many consonants in their names . . .

Besides, unless cheerleaders or airliners have gone missing in said storms, there's really no need to cover extreme weather that isn't really happening, y'know?

[malaise]

4. To be truthful the coverage re the mudslides in Washington State

was very poor as well - and that was in the US.
It's amazing that I saw nothing about this on TV anywhere.

[gvstn]

8. This really was unusual.

Everyone of our America-centric media was talking about a missing jetliner that had one American aboard while Washingtonians were drowning in mud. I would have thought the "drama" of searching for survivors in Washington state would have pushed the missing plane coverage of their radar.

It seems flooding is verboten on teevee. I don't know why because the visuals are there. Everyone can understand rising water levels.

[malaise]

9. You need violence and 'looting'

Floods alone aren't enough for M$Greedia's hacks.

[2naSalit]

12. It's because

"murikin exceptionalism".

[laundry_queen]

13. I found that incredible.

I think some of us mentioned it at the time, the lack of coverage. It was bizarre, indeed.

[malaise]

14. Yes we did talk about it

CNN was busy covering the missing aircraft which they still haven't found.

[Lodestar]

16. True...come natural disasters here get very little attention.

I'm guessing as global warming continues we'll all be overwhelmed and suffering from disaster fatigue.

[Taitertots]

5. "News" is just a mechanism to get you to watch advertisements. Balkans floods don't sell products

[elehhhhna]

6. the Balkans got helicopter rescue out faster than we did for Katrina

USA! USA!

[malaise]

7. Very true

but Bushco was eating cake, while they left the disaster preparation to the horse man Brownie.

[MillennialDem]

10. Yep I'm in Belgrade right now actually. Ok here but the rain was relentless for 4 days and I was

only told how really bad the flooding is in Bosnia and the rest of Serbia by the locals... saw nothing about it here using American media/internet.

[malaise]

11. I'm really surprised

Maybe they think we'll stop talking about climate change if they don't cover these extreme weather events like three months in three days rain.
Hope they find those folks alive sheltering somewhere.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Why?

because the flooding didn't occur in Benghazi.

[malaise]

17. Over two thousand people were buried in a mudslide in Afghanistan

nearly two thousand people were buried in a mudslide in Afghanistan recently with hardly any coverage.
Benghazi only gets coverage at Fox.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/afghanistan-landslide-badakhshan-leaves-thousand-missing

[awoke_in_2003]

18. Didn't know if Benghazi fever was affecting all US media...

when I watch the news anymore, it is BBC. We have nothing but a propaganda apperatus.

[malaise]

20. You know I watched BBC for decades but they too have deteriorated very badly

I find the Canadians have very good news and some South African sources have useful news about Africa.
I no longer trust the BBC.

[KoKo]

19. True.............!

[dipsydoodle]

22. Balkan floods threaten Serbia power plant on River Sava

The worst floods in the Balkans for decades are threatening Serbia's main power plant, officials say.

The River Sava has burst its banks in many areas and water levels are expected to peak later on Sunday.

At least 20 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina after a month's worth of rain fell in three days, and the death toll is expected to rise.

In Bosnia, landslides have buried houses and disturbed landmines laid during the war in the 1990s.

The floods are also affecting Croatia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27459184

[malaise]

23. The power plant is one thing but the disturbed landmines

is even more frightening.
The inability to deal with the effects of climate change will create more social unrest than most of us have considered.

[malaise]

24. Wow they're actually covering this on NBC news now

Maybe Djokovic asking for more coverage at the Rome Open today actually worked.
Damn this is horrific. Look at water in Serbia - power plant under threat.

[dipsydoodle]

25. Yes we had it on our tv news here early this afternoon.

Looks awful.

Video re. power station here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27460694

[malaise]

26. It's everywhere this morning

About time

[deutsey]

27. It could get people thinking there just might be something

to this climate change thing they keep hearing about, which would be bad for the Koch Brothers and their ilk.

I mean, it's all about them, after all.

[malaise]

29. Ding ding we have a winner

If 'we' ignore it, it is not happening.

[City Lights]

28. I just saw this story on WGN morning news.

It wasn't a lengthy story, but they did cover it.