Noah’s Ark Torpedoed in the Middle of Tbilisi
This story could have been written as a takeoff of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, with all the escaping zoo animals who feature in it, but out of respect for the dead, both human and animal, I have decided not to go there. The Tbilisi flood isn’t about escaped animals, it is about the reason everything else goes wrong in Georgia, and will continue to do so.
The flood has been a giant wake up call for Georgia, especially Tbilisi. The body count is still adding up, at least 16 so far. Some expect it may go as high as 35, as most of the bodies have not been recovered as yet and may never be. We can even add a few more for safe measure, to take account of the three killed by escaped animals in the last few days.
I personally visited the flooded area the day after the banks burst, climbing over a wall to get into the zoo. What I saw there certainly made it look like Noah’s Ark had run into a perfect storm, a natural disaster which could have happened at any time. But there is more to it than that
