The signs are all carefully -clear in the Lötschental in the Swiss canton of Valais. Because the water that was damaged after the glacier break, slowly flows away. But the gigantic fiddle gel, which has buried the village of blats among itself, can still start moving and spilling. Rain is supposed to use on Sundays, and there is also the ice melts.
The authorities cannot do much to prevent such a disaster that would endanger other communities. “Nature determines the rhythm,” said state councilor Stephane Ganzer de Omroep RTs. On the one hand, the current heat accelerates the melting of snow, and on the other hand there was a risk of heavy rainfall next week. Both have a direct influence on the puingel. According to estimates, the mass of approximately nine million cubic meters consists of a third of ice. After the rock from the past few weeks was fell on Wednesday, it was canceled from the Birch Glacier and thundered into the valley with tons of rubble and rubble. The approximately 300 pages of blats were previously brought to safety.
Demolition area still unstable
It is possible that debris or ice from the gigantic debris also runs and goes out, as Jonas Jeitziner says of the management staff. Because the site is not steep and the river bed of the Lonza is far there, there is a risk of greater damage further in the valley, but low. A greater danger threatens due to further rock outputs in the demolition area above blats. The mountains are still unstable there (see X-posts below).
The location along the Lonza was calm at the start of the weekend, the management staff reported. The water of the Mountain River crashed behind the Puinkegel flowed through and over the pinkel. When the water of the Lonza debris and other material wipes and drives through the valley, a similarity in Ferden must collect about six kilometers away in the valley from the disaster area. That is why the operator of the power plant was instructed to continue to leave water there.
Currently no further evacuations planned
The water slowly runs over the chain gel that blocks the river bed of the Lonza, but that is a good thing: the risk of liquefyen and a lot of material slides into the valley. Until now, the engineers have been convinced that the expected rain will not have catastrophic effects in the coming days, the cantonal geologist Raphael Mayoraz said during a press conference in Ferden in the Lötschental. The evacuation of other cities is not necessary for the time being. But the authorities remain willing.
Source: Krone
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