A devastating rockfall in Steyr on February 8 claimed two lives. While working on a cliff, a 3,000 cubic meter boulder had come loose, thundered down and cracked in two. The bodies of the two excavator drivers have since been recovered, but 16 days after the accident, no one really knows what will happen.
“A lot is still unclear at the moment. The geologists are just getting an accurate picture. We need to see if and how we can repair the slope. Because there is also a second jump,” says Steyr mayor Markus Vogl (SPÖ) in an interview with “Krone”. It is especially unclear what will happen to those three houses that are uninhabitable. The residents have been staying with relatives for 16 days – no permanent solution, the mayor knows.
Residents less optimistic
In the end, it could even be that the houses can no longer be inhabited: “But we are thinking in all directions and are currently investigating several options. Also the fact that the houses may no longer be habitable,” says Vogl. Eva Wieser, whose mother-in-law lived in one of the houses, is not very optimistic about this. “We don’t really expect to be able to get back into the house. We haven’t received any information from the city yet. My husband and I already own the house,” she says.
And how is the mother-in-law, who was staying with relatives, with the whole situation? “One time better and one time worse. But it’s no different with us,” says Wieser.
Source: Krone
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