Russians Wage Desperate Battle To Avert Tragedy

[Lancer]

"It would still have alcohol, but it would taste revolting."

The Russians know this I'm sure, Siberia being so cold, yet they still try to rescue the truck. Maybe they'll distill off the alcohol? Maybe they'll just drink the foul brew. They're tough...

[Winston]

It's stuck under water, it can't very well be frozen.

The truck was crossing the river, the ice broke, the trunk sank to the bottom... So it'll take a major fall in local temperatures for it to freeze. And if that happened, the soldiers would be a little off trying to pull it ashore.

[Boris Godunov]

Well, if it were salt water, it could very well be below freezing. At -17 Farenheit, that's certainly a possibility.

[Winston]

Rivers in the middle of Siberia rarely contain salt water as far as I've been told.

[Lancer]

Siberia ***hole deep in salt water rivers?

[Boris Godunov]

I wouldn't know about the salinity of Siberian rivers, honestly.

[GePap]

Aren't rivers by definition fresh water?

[Winston]

You'll only find saline solutions high enough to matter in this case where a river meets the ocean or in extended delta areas. Neither of which are anywhere near Omsk.

[Lancer]

"Aren't rivers by definition fresh water?"

You may have a point here.

Excepting of course the tidal estuaries.

[Serb]

I live in Omsk. Our main river Irtysh isn't salty as any normal river. If truck is underwater the beer wouldn't freeze by definition, because water can't be colder than 0 C, otherwise this "water" called "ice". But who cares about the beer? They try to recover the truck, it cost much more than beer. I don't see why it's a big deal and what's so funny. Like American or anyone else trucks never felt underwater and were never recovered.

Our beer is quite OK. In our city we have the largest brewery in whole Siberia.
Apolyton was the first place where I heard about this story.

[The Mad Monk]

I think cars that end up underwater -- especially for extended periods -- are considered "totaled" here.

[Saras]

I like StPetersburg brewed Baltikas - all sorts of them.

[Alexander's Horse]

I can see it now - several hundred Russian drunks freeze over the winter trying to dig out the booze.

[Serb]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
I think cars that end up underwater -- especially for extended periods -- are considered "totaled" here.

And you just let them laid underwater and never recover them, right?

[Serb]

Originally posted by Saras
I like StPetersburg brewed Baltikas - all sorts of them.

N7 is the best of them.