Sakhalinsk,Russia, February 18, SPA -- Electric power supply has been restored to 898 apartment houses with over 30,000 tenants on the Sakhalin Island after a cyclone, Itar-Tass reported. Electricity supply is yet to be restored to 43 houses in the settlements of Pridorozhnoye and Yasnomorskoye in the Nevelsk district. The houses are being connected to permanent power supply. This work is expected to be complete on Monday, the press service of the Far Eastern regional centre of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported. A powerful cyclone hit Sakhalin the worst on February 16. The snow accretion on power transmission lines caused breakages of wires on 24 lines, which totally of partially left 36 populated localities without electricity. Power supply has been restored to the majority of them by now, and repair efforts have been underway in the Pridorozhnoye and Yasnomorskoye settlements. The cyclone has created snow avalanche hazard on Sakhalin, the Emergency Situations Ministry's main department for the Sakhalin region warned on Monday. Eighteen minor avalanches with a volume of 50 to 150 cubic meters have already come down on local roads. All the roads have already been cleared of snow, but the avalanche hazard remains.
