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According to the police, four houses and one vehicle were damaged. According to initial information, no person was injured. In the afternoon, the Prgraten Community Operations Directorate had asked a total of 29 people to leave their homes and move their stay from the west to the east of Bobojach. The evacuation of about 90 more people in the districts of Bichl, Wallhorn and north of the village center is currently underway, he said. The Prgraten fire brigade, the mountain rescue, community workers and the Alpine police from Lienz were on duty.
500 households in East Tyrol without electricity
In East Tyrol, hundreds of homes were without power on Saturday due to falling trees on power lines during heavy snowfall. Six municipalities with a total of 19 unsupervised transformer stations were affected. Meanwhile, it became known that the Felbertauernstrae between Matrei and Mittersill will be closed from 4pm for the time being. The communities affected by power outages were Matrei in Osttirol, Kals am Groglockner, Ainet, Schlaiten, Nikoldsdorf and Tristach. At its peak on Saturday morning, about 3,500 homes were without power for a short time. According to spokesman Christian Ammer, most breakdowns could be resolved in half an hour.
At the moment, Tinetz could not estimate when the current problems would be resolved. This also depends on whether the affected areas can be reached blindly. Here and there you have to deal with impassable terrain where the streets are blocked. “It depends on when these streets reopen,” Ammer said. Currently, trees would easily collapse under the weight of snow masses, which in turn would pose a threat to emergency services. The duration of the closure of Felbertauernstrae was not foreseeable at the moment. In addition, some state roads in the Lienz district were closed
Current video recordings show the situation in Lienz:
In western Krnten, snowfalls on Saturday blocked traffic routes, long chain obligations and a fire. The Lesach Valley could not be reached from Krnten. Also in Alto Gailtal there was a handicap due to the amount of fresh snow of more than half a meter. In the late afternoon, the snow turned to sleet, north of Spittal an der Drau, a tree fell on an electric cable due to the load of snow, this on the roof of a house, which caught fire.
The traffic routes in the Hermagor, Feldkirchen and Spittal an der Drau districts could only be used with snow chains, if at all. Local volunteer fire brigades and road maintenance services prepared for extensive operations within 24 hours in light of the heavy snowfall. Due to the warmer weather, in some places such as Dellach im Drautal, Ktschach-Mauthen and Mallnitz the snow turned to sleet or rain.
In Zwenberg in the municipality of Reieck / Spittal / Drau district), a tree fell on the low voltage supply line of the state energy provider Kelag due to new wet snow. As a result, the cable broke the support on the roof of a 51-year-old man’s building about 60 meters away. The cable stopped on the roof and caused a fire in the roof structure. The owner of the house noticed the fire and alerted the fire brigade and the KELAG emergency service. After turning off the electricity grid in Zwenberg, the Penk, Kolbnitz, Obervellach and Flattach fire brigades put out the fire. There was considerable material damage.
Fhnsturm in the mountains
In many mountains this weekend a windstorm blows at more than 100 km / h. On Saturday morning, ZAMG recorded wind peaks of up to 133 km / h in Sonnwendstein (Lower Austria, 1,500 meters above sea level), up to 126 km / h in Dachstein (Styria / Upper Austria, 2,700 meters) and in Hahnenkamm (Tyrol, 1,794 meters) and in Brunnenkogel (Tyrol, 3,437 meters) up to 124 km / h. “Even in the lowlands, the Fhnsturm takes hold from time to time,” he said. In Bad Mitterndorf (Styria), 99 km / h were measured on Saturday morning, 84 km / h in Mariazell (Styria) and 75 km / h in Mondsee (Upper Austria).
Due to the heavy snow load, trees on the streets, power lines, and overhead rail lines could fall and avalanches could occur. Also, the combination of large amounts of snow and rain on frozen ground means that the water cannot run off and causes small-scale flooding.
On Monday, rain and snow fall in the south and west of Austria or breaks are taken. There are still uncertainties in future development, says ZAMG meteorologist Hohnwarter: “It will probably develop another low in Italy in the middle of the week and it will snow and rain again, although not as much as this weekend. However, the track will be like this. The lows are still calculated very differently according to the forecasting models and therefore also the effects in Austria. “
