Floodreport - Westaustria
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Hey guys, I thought I would share this. I´m writing from a friends flat, we are taking a small break from the work we are doing here.
4 pm I get a call from the redcross that there is a largescale catastrophy and all people are needed.
Started out with putting up beds in a school and preparing food and it turned into stacking sandbags, getting people out of houses with boats and walking through water up to your chest. Crazy situation, mud, trees everywhere, loads of houses flooded, bridges not passable (water literally swooping over them)
I´ll see if I can get pics online tomorrow but as you can guess I´m not running around with a digicam in the rain.
We are ready to go now again ...
just wanted to share
4 pm I get a call from the redcross that there is a largescale catastrophy and all people are needed.
Started out with putting up beds in a school and preparing food and it turned into stacking sandbags, getting people out of houses with boats and walking through water up to your chest. Crazy situation, mud, trees everywhere, loads of houses flooded, bridges not passable (water literally swooping over them)
I´ll see if I can get pics online tomorrow but as you can guess I´m not running around with a digicam in the rain.
We are ready to go now again ...
just wanted to share
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Needless to say i hated floods
Good luck, this sounds horrible
Scott
To quote the article:
"About 17,000 firefighters helped by soldiers and Prs-Phil are involved in the rescue and repair work."
Good stuff, Phil! Hope you guys are all ok.
Hopefully the worst is over now, the water is going back and I´ve just been sent home because I´ve caught a cold.
In our area 200 houses needed to be evacuated, lots of them with boats because a dam broke.
It took us 3 hrs to get an old man in his wheelchair out of his house because all the boats where occupied at the beginning, so we got into a shovel of a tractor and tryed to reach his house but the water was to deep, so we had to sit out and wait for a boat to arrive while stacking sandbangs around other houses incase the water rose any more (luckly it didn't rise much further)
Thank goodness, we weren't hit the worst allthough there was no way out of the area until this late morning.
I hope we can get rid of the water asap (now there is alot of pumping needed and digging of "holes" for the water to actually go away), sadley lots of people have lost their homes, and the area is heavyly polluted due to alot of oil getting washed out in the cellars.
I´m going to bed now, a nice cup of tea and a movie to fall asleep.
Here are some pictures
http://www.pu-art.com/flood05/