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The calendar shows May 15, but there is a snowstorm and winter in the north.
– It’s like a bad winter day. Snow, slack and breeze. It seems that we are in February and not in May. Of course, you are not ready for this, either, says Håvard Høgstad.
Arnøy Salmon’s CEO in Skjervøy in Nord-Troms buzzes between words. He says he can’t do anything else.
General Director of Arnøy Salmon, Håvard Høgstad.
Photo: Øystein Antonsen / NRK
Because we wrote on May 15, but Håvard Høgstad has woken up to a chaotic Friday due to snow.
Roads are closed and cars are stuck. The employees were trapped in the snow last night and did not return home. Other employees do not arrive at work this morning. They are stuck in the snow, are at work again, or are waiting for the trail to open.
A total of 40 of the 90 employees at the salmon slaughterhouse are weather resistant.
– We have employees who do not stand between the house and the slaughterhouse only two kilometers away. So today is production. We should have had ten trucks with salmon today.
People are trapped in snowdrops, ten cars with salmon have to stop, the roads are closed, and the ferry is ready. – It has snowed in May before, but of course you are not ready for this, says Håvard Høgstad to NRK.
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This is how the storm hits northern Norway now
In Skjervøy municipality, where the salmon slaughterhouse in Arnøya is located, the ferry is suspended due to inclement weather. And in Arnøya, the storm has closed the county road between the cities, between Årviksand and Nymoen and between Akkarvik and Langfjordbotn.
One of the Arnøy salmon employees was stuck with the car on the stormy night until May 15.
Photo: Private
– I have joked that the crown pandemic has closed the country in March and April, and now we have winter in May. I don’t know what … you can’t help but laugh. It’s tragic, the whole situation.
In total, 12 roads have been closed and three roads have been column-driven due to the storms in Troms and Finnmark now, shows the overview of the State Highway Administration.
In Finnmark, both motorists and truckers have had a response to stay on the road between Vadsø and Vardø on Friday morning.
– I had to stand behind the trailer to get to my feet. The road between Vadsø and Vardø is closed. A trailer had no chance of staying on the road, and was thrown out of the way onto flat ground. When the road will reopen is uncertain, says reporter Bård Wormdal.
Strong wind combined with precipitation on the road near the sea between Vadsø and Vardø. Neither the trailers nor the cars managed to stay on the road. These are the conditions for motorists in europaveg 69, May 15.
At E 6, Kvænangsfjellet is closed, meaning the passage of time through Finland for those who cross the old county boundary between Finnmark and Troms.
North of Alta, Sennalandet and Hatter are closed due to bad weather. So is Snefjord-Havøysund. County Road 98 is closed on Ifjordfjellet and between Börnv and Kunes. On the Nordkinn peninsula, the Bekkarfjord-Hopseidet-Mehamn section is closed. Due to storms.
If you think spring in the north has been a weather tragedy, you are right.
And the meteorologist still reports strong places exposed to the breeze, and snow and sleet.
On May 15 at Arnøya in Skjervøy in Nord-Troms, he remembers little about spring. Håvard Høgstad thinks he is more reminiscent of a bad February day.
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Must park ten cars with salmon
– We hope to open the roads so much that people get to work. Then we can see what tasks we can solve. At best, we start very late on work assignments.
Inside the salmon slaughterhouse there are still several of those who have worked night shifts in the morning hours of Friday. The day shift does not come to work and the night shift does not return home.
Photo: Private
He still believes they will be ready for the weekend before it is Sunday and May 17. But the ten cars with salmon won’t leave before the ferry can leave again.
– We have incredibly loyal employees and we are confident that we will be able to resolve this as well, although we may need to use Saturday to get people to get the fish they need, says the head of the salmon slaughterhouse in Nord-Troms. .
– But you’re obviously not fully prepared for this, either, says Håvard Høgstad.
