"Knee-Deep Sea": News from the Seabed from "NeMoskva"
In our traditional column, we sum up how Russia is sinking today.
The leader in the number of spectacular videos once again became Bashkortostan, where rainfall has been virtually non-stop for two weeks. According to a resident village of Zagorodny, which is eight kilometers away Sterlitamak, during this time the soil turned into such a slurry that even in it stopped Weeds are growing. The water in the basement is knee-deep, and the vegetable supplies have rotted.
«You don't even need a resort—there's so much water. It rains every day. The sea is knee-deep."," the resident notes. She says this is the first time she's seen anything like this in the 20 years she's lived in this village.
The downpours covered Irkutsk, Tatarstan и Nizhny Novgorod. As for the Ulyanovsk water flows washed away pedestrian staircase in Saratov Balashov collapsed the ceiling at the train station (it had just been replaced after the previous rain).
Meanwhile in Volgograd region has come A sandstorm: visibility on some roads dropped to ten meters. Strong winds knocked down poles, trees, and roofs. In several populated areas gone electricity.