Quote Originally Posted by Basil77 View Post
The flood itself is not the biggest problem. The real problem is that winter is pretty harsh in the region and usually comes quite early. Hundreds of houses are ruined and thousands are not suitable for living after they got flooded. People will not get drown but they will definetely freeze! There is no time left to build new houses or even properly repair the damaged ones!
I didn't think about that. It was 100*F (38*C) yesterday and we almost never went below freezing last winter. We still had some flowers outside on Christmas day. And we didn't get any snow.
Okay, so I checked out the weather and daylight issues. And modular housing.
10 Day Weather Forecast for Khabarovsk - weather.com
Sunrise and Sunset for Russia – Khabarovsk – September 2013
Modular building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If there's a company in Russia that makes modular housing sections, a small modular house can be constructed in 10 days. The next 10 days in Khabarovsk there's no rain in the forecast and the highs will be around 70*F (21*C) with lows around 55*F (13*C).
The government needs to get a rescue effort moving fast to setup modular relief shelters for those people cause it would still take time to ship the materials.
People have used modular housing, in relief efforts, when time was critical.
Another possibility is mobile homes.

I would even suggest an International Disaster Relief organization but they are unbelievably slow. We had a disaster here in December 2007. Trees were falling everywhere and one almost hit our house. We lost our power for a whole week and we had to chop up wood just to cook. The Federal Disaster team didn't get here till spring and we already had all the trees moved and chopped up!
They got here tons faster last spring for all the tornado damage so maybe they just don't like working in the winter.