Evelyn S. is a tough woman. Someone who usually lends a hand and helps others where she can. Now tears are streaming down her cheeks, she urgently needs help herself! After the storms, she says, “I literally have nothing left.”
Where the cellar is not flooded, it is covered with a thick, viscous layer of mud; where it has already dried, it is as hard as concrete. “I don’t even know how to get rid of it,” says the East Styrian woman.
You can see the pressure on her. With a miner’s lamp on her forehead, covered in dirt everywhere, she stood in the wet cellar for hours, toiling, mopping, cleaning, running outside with the full bucket. There are still all kinds of things floating around that were once useful; not anymore. The washing machine is broken, the freezer, the entire wood stove.
The entire basement is a disaster, the driveway too, the garden is flooded. Huge tree trunks lying at the back were washed forward onto the road, so enormous was the force. The lovingly planted plants pick up dirt in the bushes.
“Everyone needs help”
Normally it is the woman who has only a minimum income but has a big heart who helps others – “and here in my street everyone is affected, everyone needs help!” She mainly suffers from the catastrophe in her own life. Home cannot support others.
In your own home – who knows how long that will last. The older house is only rented and was previously in disrepair. “You can probably just push it away,” neighbors fear. Then the woman from Styria, who has already lost so much due to the flood, is also homeless.
And not just them. Also the dog “Bella”, which she rescued from a killing station. And Chihuahua “Snowy”, who was tied to a chain by the previous owner so that it grew along his neck. And the two cats, of course also from Animal Welfare.
Calming them in the storm and bringing them to safety was also their greatest effort when the masses of water came from all sides, almost turning the alley into a river and destroying their hope. And probably also the roof over the woman’s head. “It’s just for fun,” she says, who is otherwise tough and has overcome many difficulties in life. That was now the last straw.
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Source: Krone
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