Heavy snow blocks two Georgian customs check-points
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A heavy snowfall terminates the work of the Georgian customs services at the Georgian-Russian and Georgian-Armenian borders.
The Kazbegi and Ninotsminda customs check-points are on emergency alert for the whole day.
Heavy snow, strong wind and avalanche danger made unable for the cars to move in and out of Georgia through the two customs.
According to the announcement of Georgia’s Finance Ministry, large amount of cars are stopped from both sides of the customs and are waiting for improvement of weather conditions.
"As soon as the weather will improve, both customs will start to operate in the usual regime,” the Ministry’s announcement read.
The heavy snow, which started last night throughout Georgia’s mountainous regions and still continues, caused problems on highways in several directions.
At this moment, the most difficult situation was detected in the Ninotsminda region, where strong wind was also added to the heavy snow.
The rescuers pulled out more than 200 people that were stuck on the highway connecting Georgia and Armenia.
The bad weather is expected to last until January 10, when according to the weather forecast, snowing would stop throughout Georgia.
Georgia’s leading ski resort Gudauri is covered with a massive layer of snow as heavy snowfall continues for already one day.
Georgia’s mountainous regions are covered with a thick layer of snow as it is heavily snowing around Georgia since early morning.
Bad weather and a heavy snow causes the troubles at the Georgia’s main roads and all governmental services are on high alert.
The Pasauri-Gudauri motorway has been partly opened for cars after the road was earlier blocked by heavy snow. Main specialist of Georgia’s Road Department Zaza Agulashvili said the section might be completely opened by the end of the day.