In the Swiss Lötschental, the water behind the gigantic rubble cone continues to rise through the glacier cancellation. The location is threatening, the edge of the meter-high ice, rock and rubble mountain has almost been reached, according to the disaster rod. The authorities expect the water of the Lonza river to make a way towards the valley. Two communities are called down to pack the bare essentials. “We ask the residents to make personal preparations in order to be able to leave the apartments within the best possible time,” the municipalities report Steg-Hohtenn and Gampel-Bratsch on their website. People should be ready to flee within a flood wave or scree avalanche. Among other things, they are kept up to date via the emergency app Alertswiss. Activating external content with a view to the rubble cone, the spokesman for the regional leadership in the Lötschental, Matthias Ebener, said the dpa: “At the moment it is unknown whether the water flows through or is being absorbed.” The water has not yet been spilled over the rubble cone. “They are experts on site who always observe the situation.” Water gradually makes its way affected, the municipalities of Gampel and Steg are around 20 kilometers below the spilled village of Blatten. Overall, more than 2,000 people live in the area, but the call only applies to the districts on the valley ground, as the municipalities say. The Lonza flows into the Rhone nearby. Above Gampel and Steg is a dam and catch basin at Ferden. Water has already been drained, but whether the pool can collect all the water masses is unclear. External content activate the cantonal geologist Raphaël Mayoraz now carefully expressed himself that the worst does not arrive. He told the French-speaking broadcaster RTS: “The water begins to make its way through the 2.5 kilometer (rubble) deposit. As the time progresses, the risk of a disaster scenario is slowly but surely reduced.” Christian Studer from the office of the canton of Valais described on Thursday evening on Swiss television how such a scenario could look like. “The” Worst Case “scenario is that, contrary to the scenarios currently considered to be more realistically considered realistically, the deaf of Ferden can no longer swallow.” According to experts, village Blatten can be granted that the water will make a way through the Schuttberg, come back into the river bed of the Lonza and flows leisurely towards the valley. If experts can suddenly make a wider canyon and shoot down. This was done on Wednesday afternoon and stone. With heavy machines and the authorities, there is no possibility of stirring the drainage of a rinse in the Schuttberg. However, the army is ready, however, as soon as it allows the situation to start evacuation work, and there are also threatening to break off further rocks. At the original demolition point on the small Nesthorn, several hundred thousand cubic meters of rock can still crash. In addition, scree and rubble over the valley floor and on the opposite slope were pushed up on Wednesday. They too could slip again as a rubble avalanche.
