Not that I´m an expert on the Turkish flood problem, but...it looks like you have a pretty good idea of what happened, which seems to be too many people moving into an area. Those immigrants improvising living conditions.
There has been a lot of immigration to some areas where people have done "do it yourself" upgrades. They are not trained in the right way to do things. Inspectors are over worked and don´t get to check it all.
On a personal level, I have a friend who is an engineer, who has a neighbor who has property a little higher than his. This neighbor put drainage in a way that causes it to run into the engineers property, wich caused weakening of the engineers structure. It´s a long complicated technical issue...if he calls inspectors.....they don´t really have the technical knowledge....anyway... you get the jist of it?
Well..
Authorities were warned by the meteorology/weather station in advance..
Dont we have civil enginners in Turkey who are able to calculate what would happen if that amount of rain drops in an area?
That stream flooded 14 years ago too..Why did not local governments do anything?
Ok..Lets forget why nothing has been done to that stream..
The flood came into the road and killed people..
Why on earth did you not close the road to the traffic?
You know that the rain is coming; you know that the river/stream is going to flood, you dont need to be a professor in a civil engineering faculty to think that water will have to go somewhere!!
The PM was the head of local government when that stream was flooded 14 years ago!!
This is not a financial problem..
Istanbul is a rich city.
Budget of Istanbul municipality is quite huge!!
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Anyway..
It is terrible to watch that people are dying with the knowledge that it could have been prevented..
Edited (9/10/2009) by thehandsom
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