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Wednesday started as a normal day for Jan-Tore Bariås. Around four thirty he got in his car to go to work in Oslo.
On the way, he is greeted by what he describes as a pile of snow and he puts on the windshield wipers completely. Then all of a sudden the road under the car disappears.
– I just dive to the edge where a landslide has gone, he says.
Bariås and the car go straight to the avalanche area. The hood hits the clay first and the airbag is activated.
– I flip the roof over and I wonder what the hell is going on, he says.
DESTRUCTIONS: Several houses were taken over by the avalanche at Ask in Gjerdrum. Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB
In the avalanche zone
Bariås loosens his seat belt and gets out of the car.
In the huge landslide zone, you are not alone. There, she meets a man who she estimates to be between 70 and 80 years old. The man is wearing a T-shirt and is barefoot.
– You have probably joined your house and slid 30 to 50 meters in the landslide. He’s sitting up and has some trouble getting back on his feet, and has had a small cut on his temple, says Bariås.
That’s what Bariås was like when he arrived at the hotel. Photo: Private
Sinking
Getting out of the landslide zone and getting to safety is almost impossible.
It is difficult to walk in the clay mass.
– I sink, I become clumsy, I get tired, he says.
But then after 40 minutes in the avalanche area, he and the older man are discovered by the rescue helicopter.
– Fortunately, they see us. We get a real “flash” in the middle of the mosaic from above, he says.
A rescuer is fired and connects with the old man Bariås has met in the area of the landslide.
– They pick it up, go back down and pick me up, he says.
– Very lucky
Despite the 60-year-old man falling several meters in the avalanche, he escaped the incident without serious physical injury.
A couple of tiny tears on one hand is the only witness to the drama he was exposed to on Wednesday morning.
– I ‘ve been very lucky. Very lucky. It was a real clay pit, in good Norwegian. War zone. Just a war zone, he says.
SAFETY: Jan-Tore Bariås recovered from the incident without serious physical injury. Photo: Tom Rune Orset / TV 2
