TASS, November 27. Around 500,000 Crimea residents are facing power outage due to the stormy weather, Oleg Kryuchkov, an advisor to Crimea’s head, wrote on Telegram.

He mentioned the Chernomorsky, Saksky, Belogorsky, Simferopolsky, Oktyabrsky, Bakhchisaraisky, Leninsky regions of the peninsula among those that were hit the hardest.

The Alushta-Simferopol highway is off the line, head of Alushta’s administration Galina Ognevaya said.

A gale warning was issued in Crimea earlier for November 25-27 due to heavy rains and stormy winds of up to 40 meters a second. Some 200 people were evacuated from their homes in Yevpatoria. Head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov said that a crisis center had been set up due to deterioration of weather conditions.