Heavy rain floods south Ukraine September 20th 2016
© korrespondent.net Heavy rain floods south Ukraine September 20th 2016
The city received record rainfall.

Because of strong storm winds and showers, more than two thousand homes remained without electricity in Odessa. This was at the briefing said the assistant Chairman of the Board Odessaoblenergo Boris Trazolan, reports UNIAN.

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According to him, Odessa disabled 51 transformer substation, which serve 2040 private houses and 62 flats. "If a natural phenomenon will not happen again, we plan tomorrow to connect all of the disconnected homes to electricity. Priority house high-rise buildings," said Tradevan.




As noted by the Deputy Director of Department of municipal economy of the Odessa city Council Sergey Aguza, as of 14:00, a day received 101 mm of precipitation per square meter (one millimeter of precipitation is one litre of water per square meter).

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Record rainfall Ukraine Odessa September 20th 2016
Streets in Odessa flooded due to record rainfall
"Communications that exist today, technically can't take the amount of water that fell over the past day in the territory of the city. We expected a natural phenomenon, but not on this scale" said Aguza.

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