The consequences of the “storm of the century” are being eliminated on the Black Sea coast
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Hundreds of trees felled in Crimea during the most powerful storm on record were cut into firewood and sent by truck to the NWO area. The regional government told Kommersant about this. On the rest of the Black Sea coast, along which the hurricane passed, work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency also continues. Thus, in Sochi, 80 tons of storm debris were collected from the beaches. In neighboring Georgia, where waves swept away most of the coastal Batumi boulevard with a promenade, carried benches, exercise equipment and bicycles into the sea and knocked down power poles, the damage suffered is being calculated. The authorities of the affected Russian regions are also doing the same, but so far they are not ready to report even approximate figures.
The most powerful storm on record as told by Kommersant, covered the south of Russia on Monday night. The hurricane wind left almost 2 million Russians without electricity, according to the Ministry of Energy. Russian President Vladimir Putin, after listening to reports on the situation on the Black Sea coast, on the same day instructed the White House to take measures to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.
IN Sochi On Tuesday the sea also continued to be stormy. 50 city beaches were seriously damaged by the disaster. More than 3 thousand people are working here to eliminate the consequences. The city is removing pebble and sand deposits and returning park and beach furniture to their original places. First, the winter beaches, which opened for tourists on November 1, will be put in order. In two hours, more than two tons of pebbles were collected from the main sea embankment.
In total, more than 80 tons of storm debris were removed from the resort’s beaches.
It is planned to complete the bulk of the restoration work and resume operation of the beaches by the end of the week. The Sochi mayor’s office says that they are only calculating the amount of damage suffered by the city.
Mayor Novorossiysk Andrei Kravchenko also gave his subordinates the task of assessing the damage by Friday. In Novorossiysk, during the storm, 34% of the monthly precipitation fell, the wind reached 30 meters per second, and the wave height was 6–8 meters. In the Yeisk region, residents evacuated due to the threat of flooding returned to their homes. In total, 220 adjacent areas, including 15 houses, were flooded in Yeisk, the village of Dolzhanskaya and the village of Yasenskaya Pereprava. In the Slavyansky district and Goryachy Klyuch there are assessment commissions, and a state of emergency is in effect.
On the morning of November 28th Kuban Electricity has been completely restored. By the end of the week, regional authorities will pay compensation to stranded residents for property partially destroyed by the storm.
IN Rostov region by 09:00 on November 28, the water level in the flooded areas had stabilized, the regional governor Vasily Golubev said in his Telegram channel. As a result of the storm, 2,917 residential areas in 25 settlements in the Azov, Neklinovsky, and Myasnikovsky districts were flooded. Water entered 1,094 houses.
506 people were evacuated from the disaster zone, but only 19 of them were accommodated in a temporary accommodation center. The rest preferred to wait out the storm with relatives.
A group of rescuers and emergency services personnel consisting of 581 people and 252 pieces of equipment was brought in to eliminate the consequences in the affected areas. IN Rostov-on-Don 650 people took part in eliminating the consequences of the emergency: as early as the afternoon of November 27, they were busy cleaning up fallen trees and pumping water in the left bank part of the city.
IN Taganrog Due to the storm, a state of emergency was introduced on the street. Morskaya, on Pushkinskaya embankment, on the Central and Primorsky beaches. In the morning, the head of the administration, Andrei Fateev, said in his Telegram channelthat electricians continue to restore the operation of the affected electrical network facilities. In other areas of the region where strong winds damaged power grids, repairs have already been completed.
By the end of the working day, Krymenergo specialists plan to completely restore the power supply. As of Tuesday morning, more than 90 thousand subscribers remained without power.
Work is also continuing to restore heat and water supply in the areas most affected by the weather. Crimea in the west of the peninsula. According to the head of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Sergei Aksenov, the destroyed embankments along the entire coast will be restored with support from the federal budget. However, no one has yet announced the terms and amounts required for repairs, since the damage assessment continues.
Meanwhile, in Crimea they figured out how to deal with hundreds of fallen trees. As Kommersant was told by the regional government, the firewood obtained from them will be sent to the front. The first dump truck has already left for the special operation zone, officials note. Dozens more cars will be sent there in the near future.
It should be noted that the tourist area of the neighboring region was also seriously damaged by the hurricane winds. Georgia. The local weather service says the storm was “the strongest in 70 years of recording.” The bad weather caused enormous damage to the tourist infrastructure of the resort of Batumi, where many relocants from the Russian Federation live, as well as to the resorts of Kobuleti, Poti and Anaklia. In Batumi, waves swept away most of the coastal boulevard with a promenade, carried benches, exercise equipment and bicycles into the sea, and knocked down power poles. Sea water reached the central areas of the city, in some places flooding the first floors of residential buildings. Batumi City Hall called on citizens and guests of the capital of Adjara not to approach the coast.
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