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Komsomolsk-on-Amur continues to fight the flood. Amur turned out to be cruel than ever, but the city, at least, can sigh: the peak of the flood seems to have passed, although its consequences still to be eliminated. The main river of the Far East Amur from the sky now looks more like a sea: thousands of hectares of land hid under the water. Mendeleev’s village suffered the most from the flood, almost all of its inhabitants have been evacuated. Peak flood in Komsomolsk-on-Amur passed on Friday the 13th. Now big water leaves, but too slowly, a centimeter per day. “Basic efforts are concentrated on Komsomolsk-on-Amur. At the temporary dam at Mylki Lake the wind intensified, and there is a big wave. There are held measures to strengthen the structure, “said Mikhail Tashmatov, Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry for Emergencies of Russia in the Khabarovsk Territory. Thousand cubic meters waters still threaten Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Protective structures for the whole city is held back by water. The flood stopped only in kilometer from the high-rise buildings of the central district of Komsomolsk with population of one hundred thousand people. Near the shore at the main dam Komsomolsk can still somehow go, but then Lake Mylki came out from the coast. At least another week for this dam will be monitored divers. Specialists will check the condition of the structure under water, and from the top they will carry out strengthening work. The whole process goes strictly with insurance: in the emergency zone there are very strong waves and currents. Only in Komsomolsk flooded almost 900 houses, affected more than 12 thousand human. roads almost completely disappeared under water. And it is not final numbers, exact flood damage to city authorities to be counted. That the water level has reached a maximum, hydrologists explain the geographical location of the city. It is located downstream of the Amur River, around it are hills. So come big water there’s simply nowhere to go, Cupid’s level rose here sharply, 20-25 centimeters per day. Locals claim that This has never happened before. To the city withstood the elements more than three thousand military and rescue workers built dams around the clock and installed special iron shields, hundreds of them helped them Volunteers and workers of enterprises. “In Komsomolsk-on-Amur was a whole range of measures has been implemented using new technologies, so as not to avoid overflow “, – said the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov. Now the main thing is that the big water should go before the onset cold weather. In the Far East, the first frosts can already be through two weeks, which means time to resolve housing issues for affected, few left.
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