krone.at live overview – Day 3: The battle against the water masses continues

On Sunday alone, 1,160 fire brigades with 20,000 members were deployed, 1,000 members of the Lower Austrian Military Command were recruited and 1,100 buildings were evacuated. Every helping hand – the number of volunteers ran into the hundreds – was gratefully received in the uncontrollable storm drama.

The heavy battle against the floods, in which one firefighter died on Sunday, continues today.

Here are the latest reports:

• After the heavy rainfall on Sunday night, it was quiet in Lower Austria on Monday night. However, as ÖVP state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner announced late on Sunday afternoon after a briefing, “not everything could be given clearly”. Particularly heavy rainfall is expected on Monday morning. Forecasts by meteorologists indicate that the situation will not improve until mid-week.

• Hundreds of people were rescued this weekend in Lower Austria. According to a fire department report, 304 people were rescued in the St. Pölten district alone late Sunday night.

• In Vienna, there are still limited metro services due to flooding caused by the storms. The affected lines are U2, U3, U4 and U6, Wiener Linien announced last night. The U2 only runs between the stations Seestadt and Taborstrasse, the U3 line runs between Ottakring and Schlachthausgasse and the U4 line runs between the stations Heiligenstadt and Friedensbrücke. The U6 line is out of service between Meidling and Westbahnhof. People are asked to transfer to trams, buses and, on a large scale, other metro lines. As Wiener Linien also announced, the end of the disruption is currently not foreseeable.