No details but something happened out there.
Three weeks ago, there was mentioned on Russian TV about a road washed away somewhere around Yakutsk.
A Russian friend Alex, told me that he talked to friends who live about 800 km before Yakutsk, between Irkutsk and Yakutsk. They had been evacuated by helicopter, from a small village Reobrezenka, or something like that, because everything was flooded, also the road was washed away.
Apparently ice had been blocking a river, when the ice broke under the water pressure, there was a big flood. There had been an effort to blow a hole in the ice to relief the water pressure.
That did not go well, they planned to come back the next day with more explosives, but during the night the ice dam broke.
Alex also mentioned that between Yakutsk and Magadan there had been some flooding and damage to the road. Some 700-800 km from Yakutsk.
He told me this because I plan to go there in 2014.
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