Boats instead of cars: How the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Novosibirsk Oblast, and Krasnoyarsk are combating meltwater
🔸 Residents Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra People are complaining en masse about flooded cities. They blame the negligence of management companies and local authorities, who failed to remove snow in a timely manner.
The most critical situation has developed in Nefteyugansk, Nizhnevartovsk и Surgut, where the lack of storm drains and driveways clogged with snow slush turned even the path to the trash bins into an obstacle course, and in Surgut area — melt water began to flood the basements of houses.
🔸 Basements of apartment buildings and plots began to flood and in Novosibirsk area - In Krasnozersky, Kuibyshevsky, Kupinsky, Kyshtovsky, Novosibirsk, Toguchinsky, Tatar и Suzunsky districts.
“Flooding by melt water was observed in 21 household plots and three basements of apartment buildings,” The head of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported Victor Orlov.
Authorities are preparing to introduce a state of high alert due to the flooding.
🔸 In Krasnoyarsk Meltwater flooded the private sector in the SNT "Cheremushki". For example, along the street Daurian You can only get there by boat - the water is level with the fences, and the plots and buildings are underwater.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that they are working in Cheremushki, but are still assessing the exact extent of the flooding.
🔸 In Orenburg area Due to flooding, bridges and roads in 20 municipalities are closed.
