The most destructive floods: 5 tips, how to escape from the element

Every year in Russia comes from forty to seventy large floods. Simply not all illuminate them in the central media. About five hundred thousand square kilometers of the country's area is in the zone of threat. The annual damage from the elements is about forty billion rubles.

We have collected the ten most destructive floods over the past 20 years in Russia. And amounted to a memo: what to do if you flooded?

1994, Bashkiria

The dam broke on the Tierland reservoir, and about nine million cubic meters of water broke into freedom. As a result of the catastrophe, 29 people died, 876 were left without bed. Four settlements were flooded, 85 residential buildings were completely destroyed.

1998, Lensk, Yakutia

On the Lena River during the ice, two constraints were formed, because of which the water level rose by 11 meters. 15 people died, 97 thousand people were in the flood zone. Damage from the elements amounted to several hundred million rubles.

2001, Lensk, Yakutia

I did not have time to recover from the tragedy in three years earlier, as a mighty river again gave to understand who in the house of the owner. This time, 5162 houses were flooded, 43 thousand people were injured, eight were killed. The damage turned out to be even more than the previous time: eight billion rubles.

2001, Irkutsk region

Prolonged rains led to the fact that several rivers came out of the shores and flooded 63 settlements in 13 districts of the Irkutsk region. Especially got the city of Sayansk. At flooding, 4635 houses were flooded, three hundred thousand people were injured, eight were killed. Damage was rated in two billion rubles.

2001, Primorsky Krai

As a result of large floods, 625 square kilometers were flooded, seven districts of the Primorsky Territory. The element destroyed 260 kilometers of roads and 40 bridges. 11 people died, more than 80 thousand were injured. Damage is estimated at 1.2 billion rubles.

2002, Southern Federal District

More than 336 thousand people were injured from the strongest flood in the Stavropol Territory, Karachay-Cherkessia and Krasnodar Territory. 114 people died. 337 settlements found themselves in the flooding zone. In this catastrophe, 8,000 residential buildings were destroyed, 45,000 buildings were injured. Damaged 1,700 kilometers of roads, 406 bridges, 350 kilometers of a gas pipeline, about six kilometers of railway tracks. Damage from this flood - 16 billion rubles.

2002, the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory

Tornado and storm rains fell on the Black Sea coast. In the disaster zone were 15 settlements, including Novorossiysk. They were flooded and damaged about eight thousand residential buildings. The element challenged 62 people. Damage was estimated at 1.7 billion rubles.

2004, Khakassia

The flood was flooded by 24 settlements in the south of Khakassia. 1077 houses were injured, 9 people died. Damage was estimated at 29 million rubles.

2010, Krasnodar Territory

Strong and long rains caused a large flood in the Krasnodar Territory. Thirty settlements were in the disaster zone in the Sochi area, Asheron and Tuapse region. From the floods suffered about seven and a half thousand people. Fully destroyed 250 houses, damaged - one and a half thousand. 17 people died, 7.5 thousand were injured. Material damage amounted to 2.5 billion rubles.

2012, Krasnodar Territory

It was the most destructive and dramatic flood in the history of the edge. Ten settlements, including Novorossiysk, Divnomorskoe, Kabardinka, were in the zone of natural disaster. In Krymsk killed 153 people, and all the elements claimed 168 people. 53,000 people were injured, of which 29,000 lost all their property. The 1650 houses were completely destroyed, 7.2 thousand were damaged. Damage amounted to 20 billion rubles.

2013, Far East

Still fresh memories from events by last summer. This flood in the Far East, which lasted almost three months, became the largest over the past 115 years. It covered 37 districts, 235 settlements in the Amur region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Khabarovsk Territory. Over 100,000 people were injured from the elements, more than 23,000 were evacuated. Record flood and record damage - 527 billion rubles.

How to escape during flooding?

First, find out whether your location is in the area of possible flood. If so, consider the evacuation routes in advance (go to the elevation) and keep houses of rescue (rubber boat, rescue vest, rope, signaling tools, etc.).
If there is a threat to flood, then before leaving the house, turn off the electricity (plugs on the shield), cross gas and water. Take with you documents, money, values, needed clothing and pack them in waterproof packages. Also take water and go for three days. Do not take perishable products - everything like hike. As a result, it will turn out a good backpack. All valuable that you will not be able to take, remove the attic or at least a mezzanine or cabinets.
If you have a private house, the first floor windows will score the boards outside. It will not save this from the water, but so you can save the glass and avoid garbage from entering the house. If you leave it does not work, take into the attic, to the roof, tie yourself to anything so that it will not be taken when it is in the water.
In the afternoon, feed signals to rescuers with a bright or motley fabric tied to a stick. At night - lantern or torch.

Remember, wet clothes are much better than her absence. Wear more things for yourself not to overcool. 50% of those who died during floods died from supercooling.