One hundred people killed in Russian avalanche

Columbus Weather Almanac

Tuesday, September 21

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Today in history

A glacial avalanche in Russia buries a village on September 20, 2002, killing more than 100 people.

The North Ossetia area of Russia was hard hit by floods in June 2002. These floods, along with an early and hot summer, proved to be a precursor to a much larger disaster in September. Large glaciers sit above the town of Vla…