Helmut Fahrner, senior manager of the Hotel Schindler right next to the Steißbach, describes the dramatic minutes of Friday. According to him, the place got away with a black eye.
“Suddenly there was so much rumbling, huge stones came with the Steißbach, the bridge literally shook.” Helmut Fahrner had already experienced the storms in 1999 and 2005 with devastating damage, but the elemental force of Friday’s natural disaster was completely new to him. him.
The tidal wave crashed down
The flood wave suddenly rushed through the built-up Steißbach to the upper village. “It probably built up somewhere, after which everything broke out at once,” Fahrner suspects in an interview with the “Krone”.
“The place got away with a black eye”
His hotel was hit in 2005, but this time he escaped with a shock. “The whole town got away with a black eye,” he believes and gives the reason for this: “If the Steißbach had blocked itself at the bridge next to us, the mud flow would probably have rolled down through the village after a few minutes.”
Mine gas at high altitude
According to him, it must have been a heavy storm with hail at high altitude. From the Galzig, from the so-called Schweinströgen and the Schindlerkar, material probably broke off the steep flanks and fell into the Steißbachtal. The material then rolled to St. Anton and caused destruction.
The storm cell did not move
From the Ulmer Hütte, which is just behind the state border on the Vorarlberg side of the Arlberg, he heard that it rained non-stop between 5 p.m. “As can be seen on weather channels, the thunderstorm cell remained in the same place for a long time.”
Source: Krone
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