Heavy rain triggered a river to overflow in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, causing widespread floods in residential areas, media reported Wednesday.The storm wasforecast to maul the city of 450,000, as well as the wider area in southern Russia, for a number of days, bringing with it thunderstorms, hail, strong wind gusts and snow.Meteorologistssaid one months worth of precipitation fell in Sochi over the previous day.Sochis Kherota River overflowed and flooded numerous homes in the city, the Krasnodar local branch of Russias Emergency Situations Ministrysaid.
A local reaction centersaid pumping devices had actually been dispatched to the area.Videos shared on social mediashowed drivers driving on flooded streets and areas of a mountainous roadway gotten rid of by water.There were numerous mudslides, some roadways have been damaged, stated Sochis head of civil defense Dmitry Zentsov, who included that the storm likewise toppled lots of trees.Municipal authoritiessaid no one was hurt or killed.Sochi deals with regular flooding due to its damp subtropical environment, insufficient storm drainage systems and years of badly managed city development, costing the city millions of rubles.On Sunday, a storm in the Kerch Strait 300 kilometers (185 miles) northwest of Sochi snapped a Russian-flagged tanker in half and badly damaged a second tanker, causing a major oil spill along the Black Sea coastline.