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Heavy rains and storms kept firefighters on alert across much of Austria over the weekend. In Carinthia alone, emergency services were deployed 282 times, as the state alarm and warning center announced on Monday at the request of the APA. About 30 fire brigades were deployed in Styria. The storms of the last few days also caused damage in East Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
Record amounts of rain were recorded in Carinthian Gailtal in particular, in Nassfeld, according to the Carinthian Flood Warning Service, there was almost 300 millimeters of precipitation since Saturday night. The Hermagor district authority announced in a broadcast that all federal highways in the district were released again. There were landslides on Gailtalstrasse (B111), Plöckenpassstrasse (B110) and Nassfeldstrasse (B90). Numerous state highways were also flooded and several highways had to be completely closed.
Both the Gail and the Drau rivers flood a five-year flood, the Stockenboier Weißenbach in the Villach-Land district even a ten-year flood. According to the Kelag breakdown service, some households in the municipality of Zell-Pfarre (Klagenfurt-Land district) were without electricity on Monday morning.
Also in Styria there were occasional violent storms. In the Deutschlandsberg district and the Graz area, fire brigades removed basements and removed fallen trees. At the Mariazell pilgrimage site, the ground floor and the first floor of the valley station of the Bürgeralpe cable car were filled with water.
Especially in the afternoon hours of Sunday, the 30 volunteer fire brigades from Styria had to remove the consequences of heavy rains in some places. In Mariazell (Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district) bodies of water flooded Mariazeller Strasse from the parking platform to the construction site of a new supermarket. At the valley station of the new “Bürgeralpe Express” single-cable gondola, the first and ground floors as well as the elevator shafts and the storage and office rooms were under water. According to the chief of fire department operations, rainwater may have entered the building from the mountainside through the first floor. The amount of damage is not yet known at that time. In front of a residential building there was a small landslide that blocked the entrance to the Hotel Jufa.
In Vorarlberg, due to heavy rains that lasted for several days, the emergency services had to deploy a total of 46 missions over the weekend, 36 on Sunday alone. Most of the fire brigade missions concerned flooded basements and underpasses and were concentrated in the Bregenz district. The situation on the Rhine also relaxed again.
In eastern Tyrol, two landslides hit the Defereggenstrasse on Sunday afternoon. The first had relocated the road into the Hopfgarten township around 3:15 pm About an hour and a half later, a second mudflow left on Defereggenstrasse about nine kilometers away. There were no people in danger or injuries.
Those: APA
