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Just think of the benefit for humanity if the water vapour could return to the water cycle as light rainfall or drizzle on the same spot where it has evaporated.
1. Russian Famine of 1921–1922
The Great Famine that ravaged Russia in 1921 and early 1922 was one of the worst human disasters of the 20th century. Triggered by natural causes but magnified by human policies and actions, this famine left millions of Russians malnourished, starving and at risk from epidemics sweeping the country....
The consensus among historians is that at least five million Russians died of starvation and disease. That figure could be as high as eight million....
The success of Russian harvests often hinged on favourable weather conditions. Russian farmers experienced droughts every five to seven years, each producing crop failures, drops in yield and food shortages.
These droughts were a significant causal factor of the Great Famine. In the Samara region, for example, the average May rainfall was 38.8 millimetres – but in 1921, the region received just 0.3 millimetres of rain.
The drought also took a severe toll on Ukraine, the black soil region that produced more than one-third of Russia’s grain and cereal crops. Russia’s total crop yield in 1921 was about half that of 1913, the last year of peace.
Across Russia, approximately one-quarter of all grain and cereal crops died in the ground before harvest. In some regions, there was almost total crop failure....
The famine also gave rise to horrific tales of murder and cannibalism, as well as a black-market trade in human flesh....
Some Russian academics researched and catalogued examples of cannibalism and corpse-eating. American relief workers also observed these behaviours. Cannibalism was most common along the Volga River basin, in areas where the famine was most severe.
Starving peasants were observed digging up recently buried corpses for their flesh. Accounts of murder or euthanasia, followed by butchery and feasting, were also reported. One woman refused to give over the body of her dead husband because she was using it for meat. Parents and siblings ate the bodies of dead children.
As the death toll increased, illegal trade in human flesh also emerged. Quantities of nondescript meat appeared in markets in Russian towns and cities, some of it undoubtedly human. An aid worker wrote of the situation in late 1921:
“Families were killing and devouring fathers, grandfathers and children. Ghastly rumours about sausages prepared with human corpses (the technical expression was ‘ground to sausages’) though officially contradicted, were common. In the market, among rough huckstresses swearing at each other, one heard threats to make sausages of a person.”...
Source: https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/great-famine-of-1921/
2. The 1921 Arkansas River Flood
A century ago the Arkansas River flowed through Pueblo in the channel that is now the HARP, or the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo. In 1921, swollen by rain and snowmelt, the river overtopped its levees and roared through the low-lying areas of downtown Pueblo, taking the lives of hundreds of people, leaving a 300 square mile swath of destruction and changing the course of the city’s history.
On the evening of June 3, 1921, calls came in from upstream, warning that "the river is rising, their tributaries are all out of their banks," according to Peggy Wilcox, who helped research the Pueblo County Historical Society’s (PCHS) new book about the flood, “Mad River.” "There's a massive amount of water headed your way."
Wilcox said the police department started warning people in the areas closest to the river and asked the Board of Water Works to blow a whistle traditionally used for fire alarms. But by 8:30 that night the river overtopped the levee and within minutes the deluge rushed into the business district sending people running for higher ground...
Willcox said the PCHS tallied the total number of missing and dead that they could verify in historical documents, but ultimately there’s no way to know how many people perished in the flood.
There are stories of heroism from that night, including Boy Scouts going door to door to tell people to evacuate and telephone operators staying at their posts until the last possible moment to warn people about the impending danger. The next morning, on June 4, floodwaters were still five feet deep in places and more rain fell while rescuers searched for survivors and city leaders planned shelters, clean-up, disease prevention and more....
Source: https://www.cpr.org/2021/06/10/1921-pueblo-flood-recovery-photos/
Additional Reference:
https://www.cpr.org/2021/06/03/pueblo-flood-arkansas-river-100-years/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/month-climate-history-june-3-1921-colorado-flooding
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...easants-selling-human-heads-1920s-famine.html
https://englishrussia.com/2012/02/13/russia-in-the-dark-1921-1923/
1. Russian Famine of 1921–1922
The Great Famine that ravaged Russia in 1921 and early 1922 was one of the worst human disasters of the 20th century. Triggered by natural causes but magnified by human policies and actions, this famine left millions of Russians malnourished, starving and at risk from epidemics sweeping the country....
The consensus among historians is that at least five million Russians died of starvation and disease. That figure could be as high as eight million....
The success of Russian harvests often hinged on favourable weather conditions. Russian farmers experienced droughts every five to seven years, each producing crop failures, drops in yield and food shortages.
These droughts were a significant causal factor of the Great Famine. In the Samara region, for example, the average May rainfall was 38.8 millimetres – but in 1921, the region received just 0.3 millimetres of rain.
The drought also took a severe toll on Ukraine, the black soil region that produced more than one-third of Russia’s grain and cereal crops. Russia’s total crop yield in 1921 was about half that of 1913, the last year of peace.
Across Russia, approximately one-quarter of all grain and cereal crops died in the ground before harvest. In some regions, there was almost total crop failure....
The famine also gave rise to horrific tales of murder and cannibalism, as well as a black-market trade in human flesh....
Some Russian academics researched and catalogued examples of cannibalism and corpse-eating. American relief workers also observed these behaviours. Cannibalism was most common along the Volga River basin, in areas where the famine was most severe.
Starving peasants were observed digging up recently buried corpses for their flesh. Accounts of murder or euthanasia, followed by butchery and feasting, were also reported. One woman refused to give over the body of her dead husband because she was using it for meat. Parents and siblings ate the bodies of dead children.
As the death toll increased, illegal trade in human flesh also emerged. Quantities of nondescript meat appeared in markets in Russian towns and cities, some of it undoubtedly human. An aid worker wrote of the situation in late 1921:
“Families were killing and devouring fathers, grandfathers and children. Ghastly rumours about sausages prepared with human corpses (the technical expression was ‘ground to sausages’) though officially contradicted, were common. In the market, among rough huckstresses swearing at each other, one heard threats to make sausages of a person.”...
Source: https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/great-famine-of-1921/
2. The 1921 Arkansas River Flood
A century ago the Arkansas River flowed through Pueblo in the channel that is now the HARP, or the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo. In 1921, swollen by rain and snowmelt, the river overtopped its levees and roared through the low-lying areas of downtown Pueblo, taking the lives of hundreds of people, leaving a 300 square mile swath of destruction and changing the course of the city’s history.
On the evening of June 3, 1921, calls came in from upstream, warning that "the river is rising, their tributaries are all out of their banks," according to Peggy Wilcox, who helped research the Pueblo County Historical Society’s (PCHS) new book about the flood, “Mad River.” "There's a massive amount of water headed your way."
Wilcox said the police department started warning people in the areas closest to the river and asked the Board of Water Works to blow a whistle traditionally used for fire alarms. But by 8:30 that night the river overtopped the levee and within minutes the deluge rushed into the business district sending people running for higher ground...
Willcox said the PCHS tallied the total number of missing and dead that they could verify in historical documents, but ultimately there’s no way to know how many people perished in the flood.
There are stories of heroism from that night, including Boy Scouts going door to door to tell people to evacuate and telephone operators staying at their posts until the last possible moment to warn people about the impending danger. The next morning, on June 4, floodwaters were still five feet deep in places and more rain fell while rescuers searched for survivors and city leaders planned shelters, clean-up, disease prevention and more....
Source: https://www.cpr.org/2021/06/10/1921-pueblo-flood-recovery-photos/
Additional Reference:
https://www.cpr.org/2021/06/03/pueblo-flood-arkansas-river-100-years/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/month-climate-history-june-3-1921-colorado-flooding
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...easants-selling-human-heads-1920s-famine.html
https://englishrussia.com/2012/02/13/russia-in-the-dark-1921-1923/
