Angara region: Nine villages and villages flooded

In nine villages and villages of the Irkutsk district in the Angara region, flooded the residential buildings. In the Ministry of Emergencies, the region explained that the water level is "not critical." Residents themselves reported the editorial office of Siberia. Realities that water entered part of the houses located in the lowlands of the district.

- We now have a little below the knee water is worth it. There is a pumping in the village, they have not yet reached us, ”said Matvey Stepanov, a resident of the village of West Irkutsk District.

A resident of the village of Khomutovo Ksenia Vinogradova said that only houses located in the lowland were flooded in this village. According to residents, with the problems caused by the flood, they encountered at the beginning of the week, when water deteriorated in the wells due to the rise in groundwater in the wells, and the children could not get to school on their flooded streets on their own.

The press service of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that the emergency was caused by an rise in the level of rivers due to a sharp melting of a large amount of snow. “This led to the rise of groundwater and the flooding of roads, household plots, houses. They are recorded in Urikovsky, Khomutovsky Karloksky, Dzerzhinsky, Mamonsky, Ooksky, Schiryaevsky, Ust -Kudinsky Education,” the affected villages and villages listed to the Ministry of Emergencies.

Local media media complaints and concerns about flooding are often explained by a large flood of 2019, calling this "Tulun syndrome."

• In the summer of 2019, the most powerful summer flood in the history of meteorological observations was recorded in the Irkutsk region. The Angara troughs emerged from the shores flooded about 100 settlements, especially the Tulunsky and Nizhneudinsky districts were injured. 38 thousand people were injured from the flood. There are still people whose fate is unknown. 25 people in the flood zone were found dead. 107 settlements fell into the distress zone, more than 10 thousand residential buildings were flooded, where 24.7 thousand people lived, of which 8 thousand children.