The Russian government has taken efforts to help the people. Each of the affected families will receive 10,000 rubles ($300) on Monday, July 9th, for urgent needs. Afterwards, each family that lost their loved ones in the flood will receive the compensation of 2 million rubles ($62,000). Each of the affected individuals will receive 150,000 rubles ($4,800).
Unbelievably strong rains took place in several districts of the region on Friday and on Saturday night. The level of precipitation was equal to that common for a period of five months.. The July monthly average for the area is about 70-100 mm, the annual rate - about 700 mm. Met Office predicts rains until the evening of Monday, July 9, with possible heavy thundershowers, but their intensity may not be as high as in the previous days.
Floods occur frequently in the Kuban, but the disasters of such scale may occur once in 50 years. The last major flood in southern Russia occurred in August 2002 - 62 people were killed.
According to deputy head of Russian Water Respirces, Matvei Tarasov, the flooding could be caused with "narrowed or defunct drainage system which resulted in flood waves on the rivers."
The flood triggered serious disruptions in railroad communication with the south of Russia. Many people, who were traveling to the south for their summer holidays, found themselves trapped in their trains. Nearly 29,000 people are left without electricity in the disaster-stricken area...
A map of the flooding in Krymsk, image by OpenStreetMap, Sasha Krotov, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
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