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The flood has “noticed up close”. Anita Kaeferbockwho lived directly on the Feldaist at the time: “Thank God it didn’t directly affect my house, only the property, but it was bad, the worst thing I’ve experienced so far. Logs, garden furniture, entire garden houses, rubbish, even wild animals – including many deer – was swept away by the Aist. The Rosenhof ponds were in danger of bursting, it was on the brink. I never want to experience anything like this again, the peaceful Feldaist became a raging river. The power that developed there was unbelievable.”
The catastrophic effects of the water masses are shown in the following pictures, which we Alfred Pixner has sent. They come from the operations of the Ried im Innkreis volunteer fire brigade at that time.
It is well known that the flood of the century in Austria made headlines around the world Anna Kastner to report from The Hague. She was on a family trip in eastern Canada from August 5 to 19, 2002. She learned about the disaster during a bus tour of the French part of the country. “In the Hotel Frontenac I organized a daily newspaper after breakfast, but I couldn’t read anything at all because I don’t speak French. A photo caught my eye with a church and the name “Schwertberg”. I immediately asked a French-speaking traveler if she could “If she can translate for me what’s going on in Austria or in Schwertberg. That’s how we found out about the terrible flooding. When we flew over Linz on the return journey, we could still see numerous flood areas. In Haag we then found out more about it and that numerous helpers and helpers were on their way from here in the Machland.”
Described as a “decisive experience” in his military career Gunter Furweger from Steyr the flood action in August 2002. Colonel a. At that time, D. was the liaison officer of the Upper Austrian military command to the Steyr-Land district authority. The picture shows a collapsed bridge over the Steyr in the area of Sierning and Aschach an der Steyr.
Christian Deutinger was in 2002 as a lieutenant in Panzerstabsbataillon 4 in Linz and Schwertberg at the Engel company. He sent us the following picture.
Belinda Wiesbauer from Steyr remembers: “At that time I was locked up in Steyr alone with the children and my husband couldn’t drive home from Linz. The boys were still quite small and to allay their fears we baked a Bundt cake and added it to FF Steyrdorf. We shouldn’t feel so helpless because of this and thank the volunteers for their tireless efforts.”
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