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Message: [QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 44603, member: 636"] Heavy downpours hit St. Petersburg and forced city workers to watch storm drains closely. Sergei Petrichenko leads the city cleanup team and told everyone about the rain response. Workers focus on keeping bridges safe and making sure sidewalks stay clear for people walking around. Emergency crews work hard to stop water from piling up on streets and walkways. City officials want to protect important buildings and help residents move around safely. Emergency teams spread across St. Petersburg during the big business meeting happening there. Fifty-nine special crews patrol the streets looking for problems caused by all the rain. The city sent out eighty machines and nine hundred twenty people to clean up water and debris. These workers make sure traffic can move and people can walk without trouble. City leaders want everything running smoothly during the important international event. Weather experts measured how much rain actually fell on the city. Mikhail Leus works at a weather station and counted fourteen point eight millimeters of rain in one day. That amount equals about twenty-one percent of what usually falls during the entire month of June. The wettest June nineteenth on record happened back during nineteen fifty-one when twenty-three millimeters fell. Yesterday did not break that old record even though many people thought it might. Areas around St. Petersburg also got hit with lots of rain and flooding. Vyborg and Novaya Ladoga each received twenty-one millimeters of precipitation from the storm. Lesogorsk got hit the hardest with thirty-eight millimeters falling there during the same period. That amount represents more than half of what the area normally receives during an entire month. [/QUOTE]

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