Svein Skjærli was only to clean up after a small landslide. Suddenly the whole slope loosened and he was dragged several meters in his excavator.
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Wednesday morning, “Gyda” announced its arrival. Extreme weather has caused NVE to send out warnings about floods, landslides, mudslides and landslides at the highest level.
On Wednesday afternoon, there was a landslide between Naustdal and Frammarsvik in Sunnfjord municipality.
Svein Skjærli (53) was actually supposed to celebrate his birthday, but when there was a small landslide on a municipal road, he promised to clean up so that people could continue to use the road.
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– I was just going to disappoint some trifles. It should take about a quarter of a minute. Suddenly I heard a roar, I turned and was taken by the landslide. I floated on mud and water for about four to five meters. Everything happened so fast, says Skjærli to VG.
According to Skjærli, the width of the landslide was around 15 to 20 meters.
He has worked as a machine operator for over ten years and has cleaned up several small landslides on the same stretch before. Skjærli has never experienced such a large landslide.
– I’ve been lucky. It could have gone really wrong, he says.
It was Firda who mentioned the case first.
The landslide ended on the county road just below where Skjærli was. He shouted to a man nearby that they had to close the county road. It was closed immediately, and will be closed until Friday at the earliest.
– I think there may be more landslides, says Skjærli, who lives in Naustdal.
Despite the fact that Skjærli was transported several meters in the excavator in the landslide, he came unscathed from the incident.
– There are no railings between the county road and the road I was on. I could fall off a roadside that is three feet high.
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Police: Eleven missions so far
At 8 pm, the operations leaders in the West, Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag police districts report a total of eleven assignments associated with the announced extreme weather.
– The most dramatic thing with us has been the boathouses in Modalen, where a tidal wave smashed four boathouses. Otherwise, there are assignments related to landslides and landslides across roads, says operations manager Tore André Brakstad in the West police district to VG.
Møre og Romsdal police district reports the most assignments of the three, a total of six assignments, where the most serious are two residential houses in Sunndal that had to be evacuated due to an ice plug on the river Driva, says operations manager Tove Holst-Dyrnes.
In Trøndelag, the water has crossed the E6 south of Stølen, says operations manager Ebbe Kimo.
–– It will rain steadily until tomorrow night. There will be most precipitation in Møre og Romsdal and formerly Sør-Trøndelag, says state meteorologist Haldis Berge at the Meteorological Institute to VG.
Møre og Romsdal and formerly Sør-Trøndelag have a red danger warning that lasts until 8 pm on Thursday.
There are many natural hazard warnings out for the next two days:
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