In Switzerland, a huge glacier root on Wednesday the already evacuated mountain village of Blatten (Canton of Valais). Almost 90 percent of the city was buried by a mud flow that was a few meters high. A first drone video shows the size of the destruction.
The event was activated by a collision on the 3800 meter high Kleine Nesthorn, above the now crashed birch glacier.
Leadership as a guide: the entire village destroyed
According to official reports, the management staff assumes that the entire village is being destroyed. The reason for the assumption is that the houses that are still standing must now be flooded.
A first drone video shows the size of the
Destruction in the Bergdorf Blatten in the Swiss Lötschental:
“Situation dramatic”
The situation is still dramatic. Due to the cancellation of the glacier, the Lonza River was stored over a length of approximately two kilometers. There can be other murs there. Endangered areas have already been evacuated in the Communities of Wilder and Tilipel. This should prevent new damage in the case of a tidal wave.
By crumbling the Kleine Nesthorn, about nine million tonnes of rubble materials have been on the glacier in recent days and exerted pressure on the ice mass. Due to the hazard situation, Blatten had already been erased in the Lötschental holiday area last week. About 300 inhabitants were evacuated in a short time.
Search for a missing person
Despite the evacuation, a search for a 64-year-old local population, who had been in the landslide area, ran in the evening. Three specialists from the Cantonal Valais Rescue organization can be stopped by a helicopter next to a prodialgon. They were supported by a drone with a thermal image camera.
Historically unprecedented glacier root
According to the cantonal chef for natural dangers, the debris of the Kleine Nesthorn completely or for the most part with the demolition of the pair glacier to the valley. Three million cubic meters of rock material will probably have fallen on blats on Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 pm, said Raphaël Mayoraz, a natural danger expert from the Canton Valais, for media representatives on Wednesday evening.
The glacier annulation and the degeneration of the murder are historically “unprecedented”. The prodialgon is 50 to 200 meters thick. The competent authorities always expected the worst and now it had taken place. According to Mayoraz, the majority of the material should have run away with the degenerate of the Murge.
“We lost the village, but not our hearts”
“The unimaginable happened today, we have lost practically the visible village,” said Mayor Matthias Bellwald. He was happy that all residents were able to evacuate and bring security.
“That gives us the power to do what happens to us. We have lost the village, but not our hearts. Even if the village is under a large chain rack, we know where our houses and our church should be again,” the visibly affected mayor called to the reconstruction.
The Swiss federal President Karin Keller-Sutter expressed their sympathy for the inhabitants of Blatten. “It’s bad if you lose your house,” she wrote about X. Ministry of Environment Albert Rösti and Minister of Defense Martin Pfister immediately traveled to the disaster area and agreed with the support of the Swiss government.
Source: Krone
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