The wind devastated Lithuania: greenhouses rose into the air, thousands of people were left without electricity
The water of the Dane and the Curonian Lagoon rises spontaneously. The port restricts navigation, which is disrupted by the operation of ferries running across the lagoon. They do not allow heavy vehicles and buses. In the Curonian Spit, people travel by them to the ferries, and after moving they sit on other buses and continue their journey.
9Because they just can’t go to our ferries. Aparela is so elevated due to the water level that it is dangerous enough. I don’t really remember that amount of water. Even our employees have long seen such a sharp rise in water, ”said Greta Kugelevičiūtė, a representative of Smiltynės perkėla.
The water is so high that this part of the ferry called the machine makes such an angle that the vehicle can just hang on to the bottom.
“There was a moment when the apalure was only on the chains just reaching the ground and could only enter by car. And it takes a lot of care for our employees, ”she said.
Pedestrians who want to cross the Curonian Lagoon must go where cars are lifted. After all, the pedestrian ferry is completely closed.
“Because there is a very high current there and it is very difficult for the ferry to stand. When it is necessary for a client to get on the ferry, our employees also jump a lot, they should enter every hand, because the ferry does not stop at the quay, ”said G. Kugelevičiūtė.
And when you move to the Curonian Spit, you meet the water. This is what the shores of Juodkrante look like. The water overcame barriers and threatened the town.
The spilled lagoon also flooded the port of Dreverna. Underwater, there were pitches, paths, grasslands, benches. Sunken houses. That’s how the waves will soon seize the changing room. Even hard to tell where the boundary between the shore and the lagoon seems, the water won’t stop anywhere.
The sea and the sea. The waves reach up to five meters. One by one, they break into the dunes, destroy these fortifications, and wash the beach infrastructure. Still, beach caretakers also have good knowledge.
“It simply came to our notice then. – That’s good news here. – Good news here. Because we are now in the Second Melnrage, I see that the shore of the metro has risen somewhere in the middle – it returned the sand. Maybe it will return further, there will be even more “, explained Aleksandras Siakki, Deputy Director of Klaipėdos beaches.
And for Klaipėda residents, such a storm is a real entertainment. They are flocked to the sea to admire the raging Baltics.
While some are enjoying, others are working. Here the seaside firefighters went to the 25th call. The wind, which reached 32 meters per second at the seaside, turned on trees and pulled electrical wires. The first calls came in at three o’clock in the morning.
“The wind lifted the greenhouse and it got stuck between the house and the fence. The greenhouse was rescued by firefighters to prevent further damage and grabbed it. Also in Klaipeda, Baltijos Avenue, it fluctuated dangerously from the wind stand, it could fall on passing cars. We and the police blocked the road and cut and removed this stand, ”said Egidijus Martinaitis, a representative of Klaipėda fire and rescue services.
The storm worked all over Lithuania. There were as many as 76,000 consumers without electricity. According to weather forecasters, the wind will start to get heavy tonight, we will only face rain and snow on Sunday.