Tragedy in the province of Ostend
After a long time without updating back with a bitter note. I decided to create a tragic fact also devising national media coverage.Here what happened.
CAUSES A TRAGEDY IN RIYADH LOMA PRIETA
Loma Prieta is a town of 10,000 inhabitants located over the riverand reliever Victoria River Victoria from the dam located 4 milesupstream.
On 3 December last, in a hot afternoon in this city south of the province of Ostend, people are preparing to return to their homes in the midday break before returning to work during the afternoon.
At 13 hours, a loud bang in the town feel. A passer-known in town to present a small mental deficiency, runs along the main avenueto the cries of "THE DAM COMES DOWN, IN DANGER"
Because they are psychic, no one believed in the village until at 13:07 a furious mass of water entering the city destroying what we find along the way.
Within seconds the swell of more than 8 meters north to southmending to Loma Prieta dragging everything in its path. People,cars, houses, businesses, crops, electrical towers, bridges and trees were swept away like toothpicks.
More than 80 people died, there are 35 missing, 9,800 homeless, lost 15 billion dollars.
POSTCARDS FROM THE TRAGEDY
► Dam Cracks and leaks a few minutes before its destruction.
► Aerial view after the tragedy. You can see the flooded area
► Center Sector. At the bottom, right, you can see the roof of a portion of the train station. Several shops have disappeared by the raging water. 
NEWSPAPER COVERAGE Disclaimer: tapas are fictitious real Argentine media. Theinformation is in Spanish but I've translated for you.
► Cover the newspaper "La Voz del Interior" to Austral City.
"RIAD AND TRAGEDY - 80 dead in Loma Prieta" 
► Cover the newspaper with national coverage "Clarin."
"Tragedy of water - Loma Prieta in the fury of a river" 
► Cover the newspaper with national coverage "TiempoArgentino".
"Tragedy in Loma Prieta after rupture of the dam Victoria - The national government sent aid. Immediate solidarity of Brazil, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela" 
► Cover the newspaper with national coverage, "The Nation".
"Tragedy in the center of the country - 80 killed by the flood in Loma Prieta - The cameras that recorded the tragedy" and on the right side "The safety of dams in the country - The memory ofMendoza - San Carlos Minas: the people that emerged from the tragedy " 
This was all, have been more updates more cities!
Cheers, until next time.
ARGENTINA
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