#floodravaged

[swforester]

The town hall, built in 1841. Now it’s the historical society. A plaque in front commemorates the Mill River Disaster of 1874 in which a dam gave way and swept through 4 villages resulting in 144 lives lost and 750 people left homeless. Mills and factories were destroyed. In this town, the victim’s ages ranged from 8 mos all the up to 80 years of age.

Williamsburg MA 11/6/22

[moneymasteryhubonline]

Indonesia's white-flag shame in flood-ravaged Sumatra

As the waters begin to recede across Sumatra, what lingers is something far colder than the floods that swept through Aceh, darker than the landslides in North Sumatra and more unsettling than the rubble left behind in West Sumatra at the close of 2025. It is the chill of bureaucratic silence and the paralysis of fiscal capacity, what many have come to describe with growing clarity as the state’s…