A shower with hail the middle of a white warm day at rush hour hit the capital of Bashkortostan Ufa. This was not the case in the history of meteorological observations. Storm sewage was not able to take a two-month rate of water, dropped out in a couple of hours, although knowing the forecast, the city services were prepared, cleared the lattice.

Flooded streets Akhmetov, Gubaidullin, Mendeleyev, Pugachev, Sochi,. October, pr. Salavat Yulayev. Streams of water covered the cars, and even the garages to the roofs. The first floor of the shopping center "Ultra", "Mir" and the office of "Rosreestr". Traffic lights ceased to work, which made it difficult to move along the flooded streets. Multi-kilometer traffic jams were formed. Cameras and witnesses of what was happening fixed something very similar to the catastrophe film. At the crossroads, a stream pushes a baby carriage from the hands of a person. All who were nearby, rush to the rescue. The streets are floating machines, underground transitions flooded in the first place.

There is a victim - a man of about 50 years knocked down with water, he hit his head on the asphalt and choked. A shelter of water took the victim to Kola Street. The tragedy occurred on the street of the Russian. On the streets were more heavy. Here and there hail fell with a quail egg. On Baku street the road has washed away, under threat of falling in a ravine there was a support of a power transmission line. In some places the road was filled with garbage, brought by water.

Taxi drivers «Yandex. Taxi "and Uber in the joys of inflating prices for services several times - do not want to swim - pay.

The airport operated normally.

But in one place the water washed away the railway track. Movement restored the next day.

Brigades of utilities and emergency services of Ufa (300 people and 130 units of equipment) switched to a 24-hour operation mode. Six brigades with motor pumps pumped water from the basement floors and basements. On the "hot" phone 8 (347) 233-99-99 Ufimtsev could get psychological support and the necessary information.

According to forecasts of weather forecasters, rains will continue in the coming days.