| Event: | FF Flash Flood |
| Number: | 2011-000049 |
| Country: | IRQ Iraq |
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| Date (YMD): | 2011-4-22 |
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| Duration: | 35 |
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| Information Source: | IFRC |
| Comments: | In 22 April, 2011 heavy rains started to fall in different areas in Iraq and continued for more than 35 hours, causing floods and severe damages to several governorates. "The incessant rains led to massive flooding, the biggest in the area in more than ten years," according to officials.
During three hours of rain in Erbil, 62 millimeters of water affected more than 6 areas (Glikand, Setaqan, Tayrawa, Azadi, Minara and Badawa); where due to a stream of heavy rain hundred of houses in Erbil have been plunged in flood, not to mention that cars stalled in water on the main streets.
In addition to that, water also entered Erbil's Azadi Badawa and Daratoo power stations; where all three stations were turned off temporarily, leaving some neighborhoods temporarily without electricity. Rains also affected Suliemaniya, Nineveh , Dohuk , Salahaddin and Karbala governorates
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