In Minsk, The Elements Stopped Transportation
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Fifty streets were flooded.
The work of public transport on 86 routes was disrupted late in the evening on July 29 in Minsk due to another downpour, according to the "Pozirkam" analysis of emergency messages of the enterprise "Minsktrans."
The traffic on 37 trolleybus, 43 bus and all 6 streetcar routes was stopped for 45 minutes, from 22.10 to 22.55. The delay ranged from 8 minutes (at the "Stepyanka" turning ring) to 3 hours and 8 minutes (on Khoruzhey and Bogdanovicha streets).
Trolleybus routes No. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 25, 29, 30, 31, 31, 32, 33, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 46, 47, 53, 59, 59, 61, 64, 90, 92 were affected;
bus - #6, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 24, 28, 29, 30c, 37, 40, 43, 53, 57, 68, 69, 78, 80, 86, 88c, 91, 95, 99, 103, 104, 105, 109c, 113c, 115e, 127, 140, 143c, 145c, 146, 149, 153d, 155, 162, 163, 167, 169, 195;
Trams - Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Flooded were more than 50 streets, avenues and squares throughout the city.
Minskenergo reported a 25-second blackout in Pershamaiski district of the capital.
According to unofficial information, northeast of Minsk, in the village of Kolodishchi, the village of Starina, where, according to the radar map, the most unfavorable weather conditions were observed, roofs of houses and cars were damaged, falling trees were recorded, and power lines were damaged. The Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Energy and their structural units are silent so far.
Belgidromet warned of showers and thunderstorms in most parts of the territory and in Minsk on July 29, having issued a storm warning (orange danger level). It remains in effect on July 30.
July may become one of the rainiest in Belarus for the entire period of instrumental meteorological observations (since 1881).