Tatiana Obyedko, a resident of the village of Aderbievka, lost everything in a few minutes. 
The powerful flooding of July 7 destroyed her house; a stream of water washed away all her things; 
the woman herself was barely saved by her son from the rubble.
Tatiana Obyedko, resident of the village of Aderbievka
I managed to take only my own documents. 
My daughters documents and all the jewelry were washed away, and nothing is left.
In the neighboring town of Krymsk, the flow of water attacked the streets, washing away everything in its path. 
The lower parts of the city were hardest hit. 
Some houses were flooded and completely destroyed. 
According to recent data, the floods alone killed more than 170 people. 
Over 24,000 people were injured. 
The flood inundated over 5,000 houses. 
The disaster affected Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk and the Krymsk region. 
There is currently a state of emergency in the flooded areas.
Powerful downpours and hail flooded the streets of Odessa and caused traffic jams. 
The sewage system of the city couldn't cope with the flow of water. 
As a result, the residential areas located in the valley were flooded up to half a meter. 
In the most affected areas of the city the traffic stopped. 
The central street of Odessa is not affected by rain.
There is no data on the victims of the disaster.
Sergei Dobrolubov, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of the RAS
Everything that we have seen in these videos is caused by the disastrous fallout, which is quite rare. 
Up to now there have been no more than 200-250 mm of rainfall per day in the Black Sea coast, 
near Novorossiysk and Gelendzhik. 
As a result of the rains that fell from 4 to 7 July, there was up to 300 mm of rainfall per day. 
This can happen once in 50 or 100 years.
In fact, it has never been observed. 
And we are talking about quite a local area: 
if we speak about the Tuapse region, we will find out that there was no catastrophic flood or catastrophic rainfall there. 
The region in question is quite local; its length is about 100 km. 
Now you see the bridge in Krymsk, which dammed back the wave in some measure due to the stack trees. 
Accordingly, there was a breakthrough and a dramatic increase in the water level. 
The bridge itself was not damaged, it was good enough. 
You see, this fact caused flooding in the valleys of these small rivers. 
This is the small river of Ashamba, which is a distance of 3-4 km from Gelendzhik; any child is able to cross it. 
This is the 20th of June. 
There is nothing to talk about. 
Here is the beach that was there before July 6.
And now you see the current situation. The trees were washed away. 
You understand that swimming in this area will be strictly prohibited. 
Here is the former beach. 
Now there is no beach, the bank of the river is abrupt, the width of the river is 100-200 m in this place; 
it formed a huge mouth.
Naturally, the recreational use of the area probably has to be discontinued for several years. 
And this is the coast and everything that was brought to it; 
all that we threw at a distance of a few kilometers from the shore came into the sea. 
Here is the mouth of this river, which a three-year-old child could cross. 
And this is not Krymsk, it is the Gelendzhik region;
there is a coast and there are houses in which there were summer-visitors (now they are not there). 
The water rose, it was not a wave, but there was about 3-4 meters of rising. 
You see this dark spot: the water level was about 3-4 meters below the foundation of the house. 
But here everything was flooded up to the middle of the door. 
The bridge was washed away. 
Again, the bridge was quite solid, but on both sides it was completely washed away; 
now rather expensive road works are needed to restore it all. 
This is the river 5-6 meters wide. 
You see inverted shops and kiosks which were also swept downstream. 
Trees are everywhere. 
There is even an island in the little bay - I think, it will stay there till the first storm which will destroy it. 
The cars were also washed away. 
Everything that has been flooded and destroyed there is always flooded and destroyed once in 10, 20 or 30 years. 
In general, the residents need to know it. 
And if they take risks to build camp sites, beaches and houses there, so they understand 
that once in 20-30 years they will lose it all. 
Land is very expensive in this region, and therefore there is no extra space. 
But we must be prepared to at least save lives in these conditions, if we cannot completely save our property.
Evgeny Yakovlev, Chief Scientific Officer of the Institute for Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Today, we see the increase not only of the irregularity of rainfall, but also of the area of the flooding, 
especially in small channels where this abnormal rainfall falls. 
It is some kind of a new energy impact of this boundary of the active mixing of air masses of the continent and of the sea. 
I would like to pay attention to the fact that we now should also take into account 
that there is a sea-level rise of, according to various estimates, from 0.3 to 0.5 m in the last century. 
This is the increase in wavelength. 
This is the moving of the limit of uprush. 
In addition, just as in Russia, in Ukraine we closed the river runoff and reduced the removal of solid material. 
In this regard, the situation with our banks is changing, 
and there is a new state of both bridges mentioned here and road embankments, which are also barriers to excess rainfall. 
In this case we have an increase of wave energy impact on coastal beach areas; 
the example is the recent destruction of the embankments in Yalta, in Alushta.
In fact, we probably already need to look in a new way at the safety of the coast, 
if we already have landslide not only at a height of 15-30 m, like in Odessa, near Yalta or the Crimean Mountains, 
but also at a height of 3-4 m. 
Do not forget that, just as in Russia, up to 70% of the territory of Ukraine is loose soil, 
which is more sensitive to water and to heat.  
It is like refined sugar. 
It is hard, when it is dry. 
Breathe on it, and it will turn into croup, and then into syrup. 
In principle, I think today we need to say that we really need a new strict town planning law. 
We need a monitoring system with operating models  I think my colleague, Yaroslav Movchin, will speak about this. 
We need zoning, not only at the domestic level, but also at the international one. 
I would like to draw your attention to the present experience of building a dam in Taman in Russia. 
Yes, they defended their territory, but there were the Coriolis effects; 
the ground is moving to the sea from the western shore of the Kerch Strait, and, in principle, 
I think it will soon activate landslides on the coast of the Kerch. 
Today there is a discussion on the issue of building a bridge or a tunnel in this region 
which will connect the two sides of the strait. 
It's a transboundary issue, a political one, but taking into consideration climate change, 
I think it is a factor of additional risks.
Lyudmila Sirenko, Head of the Department of Hydrology of the State Hydrometeorological Service of the Republic of Moldova
During this period in which heavy rains fell, they certainly brought us harm, 
but not so much as it was in Russia. 
We had a maximum of 66 mm of rainfall in 3 hours. 
But the wind caused the damage, and the water did not rise significantly in the small channels 
due to the precipitation the increase was about 0.5 - 1 m only, and, accordingly, the water stayed within the channel. 
But I want to speak specifically about the paging system.
The existing monitoring system allows us to exchange information between Ukraine and Moldova, 
to be able to predict what we expect, especially in our larger channels, which are the Dniester and the Prut. 
These are two great arteries, which are located in Moldova. 
These are transborder rivers. 
These are rivers which are also related to the Ukrainian side and the Romanian side. 
Yes, we have enough time considering the time lag associated with the coming of the wave. 
We can predict something like now, when we have predicted these rains. 
We have three codes of danger, and the two of them were used in this situation an orange code and a yellow code,
warning about wind and rain. 
If we, the State Hydrometeorological Service, are aware of every emergency situation, 
and we are aware of it, we can prevent it when we can at least do something.
Sergei Dobrolubov
We see that the number of long rain periods which pour 4 or more days are growing all over Europe. 
The green zone, since 1990, in the lower right corner of the central graphic, 
means that rains of less than 4 days have decreased over the past 20 years, 
and the red zone and the yellowish one above it mean that the amount of rain 
which falls during the week is continuously increasing. 
Clearly, the longer the rain falls, the more the probability of flooding increases, 
even with the same amount of precipitation. 
There is another interesting fact: we all remember the two most anomalous periods of strong heat, 
which we had in Central Russia and in Ukraine - in 1972 and 2010. 
It turns out that the conditions in the Atlantic have been completely different. 
In 1972 there was a cold anomaly over almost all the North Atlantic,
except for a small territory in the middle of the ocean in the North Atlantic Current. 
And two years ago when we had an abnormally intense heat, on the contrary, the anomaly in the Atlantic was hot, 
with only a little cold territory in the center. 
And the result was absolutely the same. 
Finally, let us pass over to Japan and to what happened in 2011. 
After 1974 and the Arab-Israeli war, when oil prices grew drastically, the Japanese began to build nuclear power plants. 
Where can you find the cheapest water? 
It can be found near the sea. 
They built those plants near the sea and built a ten nuclear power dam. 
The wave which came was 11.5 m high, and nothing could protect the plants. 
If they had predicted a greater height, probably, this would not have happened. 
Probably they should not build anything near the sea, knowing that the risk cannot be predicted in advance.
