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– It feels unfair to be saved. Several have not recovered, and I am very lucky to still be alive, says Aud-Margaret Vamsæter Kogstad to Romerikes Blad.
It was VG who first told the dramatic story of the 64-year-old woman who clung to the mattress when the avalanche struck, before she sailed through the crater. Wearing only her nightgown, she sat up and listened to the screams of the others.
– I thought it was an earthquake
– I woke up when the house shook and I thought it was an earthquake. I clung to the mattress, and all of a sudden the whole wall of the house slammed open. I didn’t understand anything until I felt like I had snow on my face, Aud-Margaret Vamsæter Kogstad tells the newspaper.
Then the house collapsed and she was sent speeding off the second floor of her apartment at Ask in Gjerdrum.
– On my thick Jensen mattress, I navigated to the bottom of the avalanche. It was completely absurd.
When Kogstad hit rock bottom, he brought power around him from all sides. Using the mattress topper, he made a kind of cave at the bottom of the avalanche.
– The mattress saved my life. I like to advertise it.
Five neighbors missing
Aud-Margaret sat in her makeshift cave for nearly three hours before being picked up by a helicopter.
– In the helicopter I met two of my neighbors from the house. A couple who also lived in the house were on vacation, while five of my neighbors are still missing. They lived there in two of the apartments.
Aud-Margaret Vamsæter Kogstad is doing well under the conditions.
– I’m very upset, but otherwise I’m fine. I live temporarily with friends. I will have to do that until I get a permanent place to live. Now I am excited about what insurance offers me in terms of support and opportunities. I lost absolutely everything I had, but it is completely insignificant. I saved my life I sympathize with those who still miss their loved ones.
– Will live in the mountains
Kogstad was born and raised in Gjerdrum. She had lived alone in one of the housing units in Nystulia for ten years when the unreal happened.
– It has been a wonderfully nice place to live, without problems of any kind. I have been happy every time I have returned home to my apartment. I still want to live in Gjerdrum, which is my hometown, but I want to live in the mountains. Enough is enough, says Aud-Margaret Vamsæter Kogstad.
