Floods killed three men in eastern Georgia and devastated villages, grapevines and crops, adding to the crippling damage from last month's war with Russia, officials and residents said Sunday, AP reported Three men drowned in the village of Aziani, where a flood caused by torrential rains damaged dozens of houses and ruined crops in Kakheti on Saturday, district head Zviadi Epitashvili said. «We haven't seen anything like that in 50 years,» he said. Villagers pumped water from their basements, where water damaged supplies of corn, and tried to restore their roofs. They said hundreds of cattle and poultry drowned. «If there is no aid, we won't survive the winter,» farmer Naira Bibiliani said, standing in a yard covered with mud and piled with hailstones. Floods and mud flows uprooted dozens of trees, blocked roads with debris and stones, and disrupted electricity in some villages. But the short-term damage pales in comparison with the loss of crops, residents said.
