Anapa. Flooding and tropical rain

October 20, 2014 Anapa turned into Russian Venice. The heavy rain began 3 days before the accident. The city went under the water motorways, streets, sidewalks, cellars, residential economy class. In the city fell four months of rainfall.

Unrecoverable damage

On October 18, a tropical torrential rain fell on the city, periodically ceasing, then intensifying. By October 20, the city was completely mired in muddy water, the Anapka River came out of the banks. A stream of water began to flow swiftly along the sections of the roads, under which it was impossible to resist. Such strong flows were formed for the first time. The emergency incident instantly concealed the roads and neighborhoods of the city of Anapa. The flood caused damage to the inhabitants. Severnaya street, the Alekseevka cottage settlement, the villages of Varvarovka and Anapskaya were severely damaged by the water disaster. The traffic of cars along Mirnaya Street was blocked. Were flooded transformer substations in the city of Anapa. Flood damaged power lines.

Rescue operations

Strongly damaged Vladimirskaya Street, in the vicinity of which the city's bakery is located. The cellars of pizzerias, cafeterias and shops were flooded. Warehouse food has deteriorated. On the shelves of shops, the products disappeared. In connection with the obstruction of trucks stopped to bring bread and fresh newspapers. The pavilions at the "hundred-meter" were completely washed away. Outlets for a few hours turned into aquariums. Many sellers threw jobs with the goods.

Cats and cats remained in the flooded cellars of houses. Volunteer units rescued homeless animals. Nurseries were replenished with new inhabitants. Now our younger brothers are waiting for a new home and sympathetic kind people. The central beach of the city of Anapa was disfigured. Flood took boats, yachts, catamarans, water motorcycles, various inventory left unattended.

Stopping civilization

Local residents living in private houses flooded cellars with household preparations. There were blurred beds, winter plantings, front gardens, greenhouses. In most houses, roofs began to leak from a strong stream of water. Doorphones, antenna and satellite installations were closed. Over 40 households and 400 households were flooded. Twenty families from the city of Anapa were evacuated.

Flood on October 20 blocked flights of passenger and freight trains. The take-off route of Vityazevo airport was blurred. On the Bypass street of the city of Anapa flood flooded the basement of the five-story building. The developer in the parking lot placed cheap housing, which for several meters went under the water. The owners of the apartments were left without property.

The result of tropical rainfall

Flooding in Anapa restricted traffic, cut off transmission of electricity and caused irreparable damage to the city budget. An emergency situation was introduced in the city. Specialists from the rescue service, emergency teams, medical workers and firefighters were involved. People were left without power supply and lost the opportunity to cook food.

Local residents of the flood in Anapa still remember with a quiver in his voice. The construction boom aggravated the situation. Multi-storey houses have grown on waste lots. Previously, these areas were intended to absorb sediments into the soil. After a tropical downpour, the special services were busy pumping water out of cellars, premises, repairing the flooded part of the embankment.

"Vodokanal" provided stable operation of the pump station of the Northern street. Emergency crews were sent from nearby cities for restoration work. City authorities have minimized losses of regional scale. The damage to private households could not be calculated.