The capital was hit by the most powerful snowfall in the last 100 years. For two days the height of snowdrifts has reached 42 cm, and this is not the limit. The fact that it is necessary to wait for such a thing was warned by weather forecasters and was not mistaken. And although they were preparing for the snowfall, the communal services were transferred to the round-the-clock mode of operation, he delivered a lot of troubles.

Wet snow at an air temperature close to zero degrees stuck to the trees and wires. As a result, more than two thousand trees collapsed in the city. And although there was an appeal to the townspeople - do not put cars under the trees, for two days, more than a dozen cars were damaged by falling trees. Falling trees damaged power lines. There were no injuries. It is known about one killed and five injured townspeople. Due to the fall of the trees, the movement of trams on several routes was disrupted, we had to launch compensatory buses. At the intersection of Izmaylovskoye highway with the main avenue, the tree fell directly on the roof of the tram, fortunately no one was hurt. Completed the picture with half-meter drifts ice and wind with gusts up to 20 m / s.

In connection with all this increased the load on the subway. More often it was necessary to clean the vestibules and staircases to avoid getting mud into the mechanism of escalators and injuring passengers.

Over two days, the city fell more than half the monthly rainfall. The final figure will be announced by meteorologists on February 5. The norm of precipitation for February - 36 centimeters, but already dropped 43 centimeters. More than 700 thousand cubic meters of snow were shipped from the streets only on Saturday.

About two hundred flights had to be canceled airports in Moscow. Most of them are at the airport "Domodedovo".

On February 4, one-story metal boxes on Vavilov Street. The fire in an area of ??500 square meters was promptly extinguished. No reports of victims were received.

Ice with wind, drifts become an obstacle for wagons. Only from the 33 kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road was evacuated AMPP moved five trucks. Movement on this site was restored.

On the tracks of the Gorky direction of the Moscow railway, the driver of a suburban electric train noticed the falling tree in time, and applied emergency braking. The tree was damaged contact network. On the scene immediately went to the emergency teams.

Director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand said that on Monday the intensity of precipitation will decrease, and on Tuesday and Wednesday they will practically cease. Winter will return to Moscow with frosts up to 15 degrees.