After abortion in Switzerland after a glacier: worry about rain

Rain is supposed to use on Sunday, plus the ice melt – all of this can destabilize the gigantic rubble cone, which has buried the village of Blatten among themselves and partially blocks the outflow of the Lonza mountain flow. This increases the risk of a degenerate from a degenerate. Rocks, scree and mud could get in motion and slide down the valley.

“Nature pretends the rhythm”

The authorities cannot do much to avert such a disaster that would endanger other communities. “Nature pretends the rhythm,” said State Councilor Stephane whole to the broadcaster RTS. On the one hand, the current heat accelerates the melting of snow, and on the other hand there was a risk of heavy rains next week. Both have direct influence on the rubble cone.

According to estimates, the mass of about nine million cubic meters consists of a third of ice. After the rock falls of the past few weeks on Wednesday, it was canceled from the Birsch glacier and thundered into the valley with tons of rubble and rubble. The approximately 300 pages of Blatten had previously been brought to safety.

It is possible that rubble or ice from the gigantic rubble mountain also loosens and goes off, as Jonas Jeitziner says from the management staff. Because the terrain is not steeply and the river bed of the Lonza there is far there, there is a risk of greater damage further down in the valley, but low. Greater danger threatens through further rock exits in the demolition area above Blatten. The mountains are still unstable there.

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Lonza flows

The location along the Lonza was calm at the start of the weekend, the management staff reported. The water of the mountain river pounded behind the rubble cone flowed through and over the rubble cone. It flows about the same amount of water into the pent -up lake as it flows over the rubble cone, according to the management staff. In the reservoir, almost all of the initially spared houses are sunk by leaves.

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