On Wednesday night, there was again huge amounts of rain. There were floods, mudslides and even evacuations, especially in Upper Styria. In Traboch, Mautern and Thörl, a civil protection alarm was sounded overnight.
On Wednesday evening, several municipalities in Styria were once again ‘land under’. The ground is saturated by the amount of rain of the past days and weeks – people are worried about their belongings. From 23:00, all fire brigades in the districts of Leoben and Bruck-Mürzzuschlag were called out again.
“In the Leoben region, it started in Mautern,” reports Stefan Riemelmoser, spokesman for the fire department in Leoben. Heavy rain fell, resulting in mudslides, landslides, blockages and flooded cellars. The communities of Mautern, Traboch and Thörl were particularly affected; a civil protection alarm was sounded here overnight. Residents were asked to avoid cellars and go to high rooms.
40 people evacuated in Traboch
In Traboch, two districts with around 40 inhabitants even had to be evacuated. “The dam of Lake Traboch threatened to break,” Riemelmoser explains. The residents are now being cared for in the primary school; it is not yet possible to estimate when they will be able to return home. The water level also rose extremely in the Liesing. In the Leoben region alone, a total of 400 emergency services were needed. Thomas Meier, spokesman for the state fire brigade, reports 180 operations by around 100 fire brigades throughout the country. According to the state warning center, the civil protection alarm has now been lifted in Traboch at least.
The Bruck volunteer fire department also reports on Facebook: “Storm fronts that followed each other in quick succession, some with large hail, led to several mudslides and floods.” From the Mürzzuschlag area it says: “Numerous flooding on traffic routes, underpasses, pumping out of cellars.” rooms and smaller mudslides were caused by the emergency services of the fire department to be processed.”
At the moment we are working together on pumping and clearing operations. These will continue throughout the day. Concerns about further thunderstorms in the afternoon hours are also increasing: “It doesn’t look good,” says Meier. It could reach the Murtal as early as the afternoon.
Source: Krone
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