Since July 4, a storm warning has been in effect in Sochi. To ensure the safety of citizens and guests of Sochi, city services are working in an enhanced mode, the city administration told the agency.
Local flooding is observed in the Adler and Khosta districts of Sochi. Electricity supply has been disrupted in a number of areas due to wind and heavy rain. At least one person is known to have died. Sochi authorities have turned on loudspeakers and an alert due to rising water levels in rivers, Znak wrote.
The emergency warning of unfavorable meteorological phenomena was extended in the Krasnodar Territory until July 6, the newspaper writes “Kommersant”… Heavy rain is expected in the region, showers with impaired visibility, hail and wind up to 24 m / s.
People move along the streets of the city exclusively by swimming, added Sign.
Eyewitnesses reported a rise in water in the Psezaups River in the Lazarevsky district of Sochi.
In Sochi, all tourist sites were closed and excursions were canceled. The arboretum and its cable car, picnic glades and other objects located on the territory of the Sochi National Park are not working, the newspaper noted.
Head of Sochi Alexey Kopaygorodsky reported in Telegram, in Adler the fall of the tree killed one man and two others were injured.
“The wind in the city fell 34 trees. There are local power outages. The main blow of the disaster fell on the Adler and Khostinsky districts. Unfortunately, victims could not be avoided,” the official wrote.
The Sochi administration has already warned local residents to were ready to evacuate in the event of a severe flood.
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