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Hungary: Budapest Prepares For Flood

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 5 April 2006 21:53 GMT

Timbo of The Hungary Years posts pictures of how Budapest is preparing for the flood. Pestiside.hu writes about disaster tourism and media attention: “The English-speaker of unidentified origin […] speculated that the Danube would have to rise another meter for the story to be big enough for the BBC.”

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Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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