Intense rains flood villages in western Georgia
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June is yet again proving to be a difficult month for Georgia in terms of weather.
Heavy rainfall over the past several days has caused major infrastructural problems in the Samegrelo region in the western part of Georgia.
Photo source: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti / Facebook
Most villages in this area were drastically flooded. Small village rivers have swollen over their riverbeds, flooding nearby agricultural lands, roads, and houses.
In the villages of Sachino and Kalgali, landslides occurred at several locations, damaging houses and blocking the central road. Roads were heavily flooded in several other villages.
Photo source: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti / Facebook
Flood waters uprooted and swept away large trees.
Special commissions have been set up to estimate the financial loss in each municipality.
Photo source: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti / Facebook
A major flash flood in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi two years ago in 2015, which was Tbilisi’s worst natural disaster in decades, also occurred in June.
Heavy rain and hail has damaged vineyards and other agricultural lands in Georgia’s main wine-making region of Kakheti.
Recent bad weather has badly affected several regions of Georgia so that the experts are now evaluating the damage caused by the intensive downpour and precise figures will be known shortly.
Over 100 anti-hail rockets were launched into the sky above Georgia’s winemaking region to prevent hail and reduce the effects of a major storm that threatened grapes and other crops.
The Georgian Government is taking measures to assist people affected by the heavy rain in the western parts of Georgia.
Strong wind and heavy rain has crashed down on Georgia’s western Ozurgeti municipality, damaging buildings and causing problems for locals.
Several villages in the Kobuleti Municipality in the coastal Adjara region were drastically flooded. Small village rivers swell over their riverbeds, flooding nearby roads and sweeping away a bridge connecting two villages.
Many of the streets of Georgia’s third largest city of Kutaisi have been flooded after a river expanded over its riverbed following a heavy rainfall. Weather experts expect a powerful, magnitude-seven storm at the Black Sea coastline later today.
A magnitude-five storm is facing Georgia’s Black Sea coastal resort of Batumi today. Last night, the sea waves were as high as several metres and fully covered the promenades along the seafront.
The Georgian Minister for Refugees Sozar Subari has stated that 21 houses and the local infrastructure have been heavily damaged in the village of Tchuberi in Mestia, on the second day of flooding of the river Nenskra.