Strong winds take down trees, commercial billboards in Batumi
People in Batumi are refraining from walking outside due to the strong winds. Photo: Adjara TV.
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Strong winds have caused a number of issues in the coastal city of Batumi in western Georgia today.
Several trees and commercial boards have been downed, trash cans and parking meters scattered and summer homes across the coast destroyed.
A bus stop was taken down by strong winds. Photo: Adjara TV.
Winds blew two men off a roof of a house while they were trying to fix it.
One received minor injuries, while another is being treated in hospital.
Batumi Emergency Service has received 37 calls. Most of them concerned the damage of roofs.
One call was about the falling down of windows from a construction. The incident caused no damage to people, but only nearby houses.
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that they are investigating 17 incidents referring to the damage of cars and individuals due to the strong winds.
The ministry says that four individuals have received damages, whose lives are not at risk.
One out of two injured in Batumi yesterday as a result of a strong wind has died.
Roofing layers torn off a nine-floor building by a strong wind in Batumi injured two people and damaged two cars in the seaside city on Friday.
Strong winds on Wednesday morning have caused a number of problems across Georgia from downed power lines to property damage. Hundreds of families have been left without electricity after winds hit the capital Tbilisi and several regions in eastern Georgia.
Strong winds have caused damage in Imereti and Samegrelo- Zemo Svaneti regions of western Georgia today.
Firefighters and rescuers received 100 calls on March 17 as severe winds struck Georgia, largely in Tbilisi.
The passengers of a bus coming from Kazbegi Municipality and about 10 cars that encountered problems because of snow near Gudauri have already left the scene and departed for Tbilisi.