Georgian Black Sea coastal cities hit by heavy rain [VIDEO]
Weather forecasts say heavy rain is expected for the next two days in Batumi. Photo: Pia.ge.
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Heavy rainfall has hit Black Sea coastal cities in Georgia today, including in Batumi and Ureki where flooding took place.
Dozens of streets, homes and shopping facilities have been flooded in Batumi while in Ureki along with houses the police station was flooded to the point that law enforcers were unable to enter the building.
About 40 calls have been recorded regarding the flood in Batumi today, local media outlet Batumelebi.ge reports.
Batumi water supply and sewerage network service company Batumis Tskali states that pumping work is underway in the most problematic parts of the city.
The landslide in the village of Peria near Batumi damaged three houses. A 33-year-old woman was injured and taken to the hospital. Photo: Batumelebi.ge.
Dozens of old and new landslide hotspots have been activated in the Khelvachauri municipality of the western Adjara region, Radio Liberty Georgian service reports.
Khelvachauri municipality mayor Jumber Vardmanidze told the media outlet that seven families have become eco-migrants, noting that their houses are no longer suitable for living.
As a result of the landslide, central roads in several Adjaran villages are blocked.
The landslides have also occurred in about 20 places of Batumi’s suburbs.
Weather forecasts say heavy rain is expected for the next two days in Batumi.
Heavy rain has hit Georgia’s Black Sea town of Kobuleti and nearby villages. Agricultural lands, ground floors and several markets were damaged as the water level in the river of Achkvi increased.
More than 20 villages have been cut off from the outside world in western Georgian’s Lentekhi municipality due to heavy rainfall. As a result of the continuous rain, the Tskhenistskali river overflowed, which swept away substations and left four villages without electricity. Mayor of Lentekhi municipality Badri Liparteliani told on.ge that traffic on the connecting central section of Kutaisi-Tskaltubo-Lentekhi-Lasdili is paralysed.
The new building of Batumi Republican Hospital has been flooded following heavy rainfall in western Georgia, local media outlet Batumelebi reported today. Batumelebi’s source reported that this is not the first time ‘when the ground floor of the new building has been flooded’ noting that the water gets into the building from the soil as well.
Heavy rain has hit Batumi, the capital of the Georgian Black Sea region of Adjara, causing flooding in the streets and the central highway. Head of the local water company Giorgi Siradze said all of the services of the Batumi City Hall are working in emergency mode.
The streets of the Georgian seaside town of Batumi have flooded again due to heavy rainfall. Footage from Adjara TV station shows traffic has been seriously affected due to torrential downpour, which has flooded the first floors of houses in Batumi damaging furniture and other household items.