Heavy rain causes severe flooding and landslides in Slovenia

Extensive showers in Slovenia in recent days have caused hundreds of houses to be flooded and out of power, while causing serious landslides.

According to the initial report, many areas of Slovenia such as Gorenjska, Podravska, Central Slovenia, as well as the Adriatic coast are now submerged in water, thousands of houses are completely out of power.

The Velenje city center alone has nearly 400 houses flooded and isolated from other areas.

The water levels in the rivers Sava, Drava, Socha, Savinja and some other rivers rise significantly. Heavy rain, high winds caused trees to break, causing paralysis of traffic. Schools also closed yesterday.

Currently, the Slovenian authorities have mobilized hundreds of soldiers, firefighters and civilian forces to participate in flood control, and urged people to limit out if not necessary and boil water before using it. use.

Meanwhile, on the same day, in Australia's South Australia state, there was a big thunderstorm with winds of nearly 100km / h, causing more than 170,000 lightning strikes, causing more than 6,000 homes to lose power and burn on a large scale .

Currently the state authorities are focusing on troubleshooting and destroying the "fire".