Potato field beaten by hail

COMM Potato field beaten by hail near Ploticha village of Ternopol region after the storm on Tuesday, July 13, 2004. The natural disaster has almost destroyed all the village. All 220 farms were damaged: broken windows, faulty transmission facilities, lost harvest. On 9-11 of July there were heavy rains with hail and wind speed to 25m/s in Ternopol, Ivano-Phrankovsk and Chernovitskaya regions. As a result nearly 50 thousand hectares crops were damaged and 332 settlement de-energized. To the 13d of July the power supply has been practically restored in a half of them. Photo by Leonid Tit / UNIAN