“The storm that raged last night caused considerable damage. To our knowledge, the greatest effects are recorded in the Avižieniai and Riešė elderships.
We are constantly communicating with the services, they are working on site. We have also informed the contractors. Today, priority is given to main tasks – removing fallen trees or other obstacles to clear passages and routes. All other work will continue tomorrow,” writes the district mayor.
According to him, ESO is also working on fixing electrical network faults.
“If you see places where help is still needed and services cannot keep up, inform the elderships,” urges the mayor to residents.
Due to the storm that occurred last night in Eastern Lithuania, firefighters responded 37 times to remove fallen trees, mostly in Vilnius County.
“We had the most problems in Vilnius County (…), where we had as many as 27 calls. Other regions had slightly fewer: two in Klaipėda County, five in Alytus, one in Telšiai, and two incidents recorded in Utena,” said Giedrius Vaičiulis, a specialist from the Fire Protection and Rescue Department (PAGD), to LRT radio on Sunday.
According to him, in 34 cases firefighters removed trees fallen onto the road carriageway, twice onto power lines, and once onto a building.
According to the “Energy Distribution Operator” (ESO) outage map data, currently about 5.4 thousand residents in the country are without electricity due to disruptions.
Meteorologist Elena Kliukina told the broadcaster that nearly 35 mm of rain fell in Vilnius district, almost 27 mm in Varėna district, and heavy rain also occurred in Švenčionys, Šeduva, Biržai, and Pakruojis.
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“Eastern Lithuania received the most rain and, of course, the rain was accompanied by thunderstorms, with wind gusts in some places,” said E. Kliukina.
Flooded Avižieniai roundabout
15min already reported that due to the storm, the Avižieniai roundabout is still flooded on Sunday morning. The road under the viaduct is impassable.
According to the 15min photographer, in the surrounding streets, especially towards Užubaliai, there are several fallen trees, and many broken branches are scattered on the road.
Driving deeper into Bukiškis, there are even more fallen trees. The 15min photographer saw that a huge fallen tree also damaged the roof of Bukiškis school, which is currently being renovated.
According to the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service, on Sunday the chance of rain is low, a northwesterly wind of 6–11 m/s will blow, and the temperature will rise to 20–25 degrees Celsius.
On Monday, no rain is expected, temperatures will warm up to 22–27 degrees, and on Tuesday there will be brief showers in some places, with temperatures of 25–30 degrees Celsius.
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