Without Warning
No Flood, No Drowning: A Lake That Killed 1,746
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Every disaster leaves a mark you can point to. A crater. A scar. A field of wreckage.When help finally reached the villages around Lake Nyos in August 1986, rescuers foundalmost nothing disturbed.The houses were standing. The doors were shut. The oil lamps still held their oil.And inside those houses, out in the fields, along the paths, more than a thousand peoplelay dead beside their cattle. No…