A few days after a natural disaster strike, you often find the remaining people combing through debris for their belongings or shoveling mud from their collapse houses. You can see the Prime Minister a winding in the region, or defend the crew operating large, mechanical excavations to clean this scene.
But the Swiss village of Blaton is caught in a type of post-castestroph paralysis. All this map has been erased under millions of cubic mitters of rock and ice debris. And the site is still unable to access the crew, about a week later the collapse of the birch glacier and the Alpine Idol was swallowed.
“It was like an explosion – like an explosion in my heart,” Daniel Ritler told DW that he looked out on his burial hometown. “We immediately knew that everything was destroyed.”
“For seconds, there was an emptiness. You could really feel it,” hey said. “There is still a little hop, but as soon as the fog cleaned, we saw the destruction.”
Empty over time
Ritler, who placed the sheep and run a tourist business in blaton, is living with friends for now. “We lost our home, our stables, and of course, all those memories. We live a little in heaven,” Heer said.
Although Delus is claimed to have a life, Ritler and about 300 residents were vacated on time. And here many people feel lucky to survive – know that less rich can cause even more damage from a similar event.
We meet Villar, from Blaton, 3.5 kilometers (2.1 mi) from blatant and from the closest accessible point of the disaster sector, which is now serving as a crisis coordination hub. Here, the normal alpine soundtrack of Burdong and the river that escapes under the valley is submerged by helicopters, transports scientists and geologists to damage scientists and geologists, and assesses the risk of further decline.
Mountain population ‘maximum threat’
One of those experts is Glacieologist Sascia Gindrax. He said, “We had a lot of rock and silt and sediment going on a glacier, and this mass inspired the glacier to really pursue – and everything just went under the valley,” he explained.
Swiss scientist told DW that the cause of “coincidence of reasons” declined. “It is difficult to say that it is associated with climate change and it is not one. It is difficult to put a label on the incident, but we are facing the real high temperature in the Alps,” he told DW. “It is generally double the other parts of the world,” he said.
The bee retreats for decades in alpine glaciers, which Gindrax stated that makes the rock less stable. “This is a reason … the second is perhaps permafrost that is melting, and second, geology.”
“With climate change, we saw that the oldest natural threats, so rock fall or glacier collapse or landslides, etc., they increase frequency.”
“The population in the mountains is more and more threatened with such events.”
The apprehension neighbor ‘will not return’
In addition to the humming of the helicopters, the roads of the Villar are cool. Local resident Alex Rider is packing his car: two black bags filled with clothes and other basics for their neighbors who have suddenly found themselves homeless.
“Will they be compensated for lost goods?” He was amazed. “It’s happiness.
In this part of the Alps, the rider is afraid for the future of life. “There is only one school entry left in the valley,” Heer said. Inside his garage, the rider shows us the mask that he helps the craft for the local carnival – one of the traditions on one of the many traditions here. He knows that if more people leave, this cultural heritage will be difficult and difficult.
But when asked if they think it will disappear completely, the reader is defense.
“The tradition never wants to be.
No further withdrawal plan was made
There is no more withdrawal plan in nearby cities or villages for now. But they live on high alert. Some 45 minutes of drive away in the gampale, flood prevention measures apply, with some small bridges deliberately disintegrate to avoid further decline.
Regional President Christian Rider told DW on Sunday, “Now we have to see how developers develop further at the place of damage. Rock mass can continue to fall from the mountain – and we have to monitor how the dike develops in terms of river curriculum.”
“Depends on how the danger develops … We will take further measures,” hey said.
According to the Swiss broadcaster RTS, the situation on Monday with “no notable changes” in the birch glacier was “stable”. But small landslides continue, and there is “no improvement” to allow the crew to safely enter the area.
‘We have to find a new purpose’
For the remaining people whose houses and livelihood are buried in a brown-brown debris, which officials say that 100 meters (328 ft) is deep in some areas, it is clear that no one is going.
From the seat of the drivers of his van, influencing the disaster that fills windows and wing mirrors with scenes of the succulent mountain landscape, Daniel Ritler told DW told DW that it was difficult to imagine what life could look after bleeding.
“I built a farm with scratches, always favorable to future challenges,” Hey said, “this first.”
“Now we have to find a new place and a new purpose to live. And it will take some time to find our way again until we can find our way again.”
