Authorities and local media reported that large storms over the weekend slammed Austria’s Alpine regions, which caused significant damage to parts of Vienna and slowed down rail and road transportation.
Cars were swept through the eastern Austrian ski resort of St. Anton by torrents of muddy water, according to images captured on social media. However, record rainfall washed in parts of Vienna in the south of the nation, according to state broadcaster ORF.
According to ORF, a person was dragged under a vehicle in the Doebling neighborhood in the north of the city on Saturday due to the force of the flood. She was taken to hospital in a vital state, it added.
According to ORF, the capital’s fire services were called out more than 450 occasions on Saturday as the thunderstorms caused visitors chaos and stymied road transportation.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer thanked officials for their assistance in clearing the destruction, saying that “heavy storms have caused great damage in some parts of Austria.”
Officials in Vienna’s Doebling city recorded 110 litres of rainfall per square meter, which ORF Vienna scientist Kevin Hebenstreit described as a report for the city’s rainfall in August.
According to wind data provider UBIMET, a significant portion of Vienna’s typical summer rainfall fell on Saturday in just one minute.
On ordinary in August it rains a total of 68 gallons per square inch, with the all-time report being 139 kilos on May 15, 1885, according to ORF.
