Tuesday, August 19, 2014

More rain is expected over Halland – helagotland.se

More rain is expected over Halland – helagotland.se

We expect the water levels rise even more. It will get worse, says Mattias Sjostrom, chief of staff at the emergency services in Halmstad.

Municipal and Public Safety in the afternoon moved its focus east. Oskarstrom, Sennan and Åled, be most affected by the high flows in Nissan.

We reinforce and build dikes with sandbags, barriers and filling compound, says Anna Wall Fors, Director, Communications at Halmstad Municipality Crisis Staff.

In several places in the affected locations were also sand to retrieve the residents, so that they could build their own levees.

Class 3 warning means according to SMHI “very extreme weather that may pose great danger to the public and very large disturbances in important social functions. “

Rescue Service and the municipality received staff assistance of the Home Guard and the defense materiel from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

Older people in Getinge living at home were evacuated.

Halmstad municipality classed situation in Getinge and in places adjacent to Nissan as an “extraordinary event”. School of Getinge and three nursery schools are closed tomorrow as well, as are the resort’s medical center and the National Dental reception.

Late in the afternoon, got most of Eons 800 customers in Getinge and Kvibille, who have been without electricity since early morning, back his power.

Erik Henriksson, who were without power from the early morning hours, woke up to water pouring in under the door leading to his patio.

I live in the shit. Now I have 35 feet of water in the apartment, he said to TT.

SMHI has no good news to residents in the flood-affected parts of Halland. The unsettled weather is expected to last the week.

That’s bursts rather than continuous rain, but thunderstorms may occur locally, and then it can fall 20 millimeters in a very short time, says Lovisa Andersson, meteorologist at SMHI.

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