Both Vaksdal and Ullensvang municipalities in Vestland have appointed emergency staff on Monday.
Large parts of both municipalities are practically isolated.
In Ullensvang, Odda Hospital is on standby to manage life and health locally. The ambulance has good readiness, but limited access, the municipality reports.
The police are also on standby, and the coast guard ship KV Tor is in Odda as a contingency measure.
From 15:30 today, National Highway 13 between Odda, Tyssedal and Fresvik in Ullensvang was closed due to the risk of landslides. This means that Odda is isolated.
Here, contractors put up a fence to close the road, and thus isolate Odda.
Photo: Tale Hauso / NRK
The municipality must introduce a boat route.
Due to heavy rainfall and meltwater, several roads in Vaksdal are closed. The main road through the municipality is Europavei 16, which is closed between Trengereid in Bergen municipality and Svartenakken in Voss municipality.
The municipality has started crisis management, they report on their own websites.
Vaksdal municipality has set up crisis management due to rainfall and many closed roads. This morning the water gushed through the center of Dale.
– We encourage all residents to be aware of the weather conditions, and to be prepared for any changes in the situation, writes the municipality.
Isolated by race
Marianne Drivenes Hove is at home with the children, and for a long time had no opportunity to get out of Rusdal in Lund municipality in Rogaland.
On the night of Monday, there was a landslide at county road 4258, a landslide that blocked the roads to Rusdal.
On Monday afternoon, the roads were reopened, but Lund municipality encourages the least possible traffic along Rusdalsvannet, where the slide occurred, as long as there is a red danger warning for landslides.
Tomorrow there will also be home school for pupils in Rusdal.
From her window, Marianne Drivenes Hove sees the clean-up work after a landslide in isolated Rusdal in Lund municipality.
Photo: Private
Hove believes the crash was predictable.
– We looked at the weather forecast and saw that this was going to happen. We know how big the race risk is here. We were the ones who notified the municipality so that they could issue a warning. Then it would be easier for us to explain why we had not had children in school and kindergarten today.
According to Hove, the warning should have come after the slide had taken place. But she was still happy that the race went off last night.
– When the warning was only supposed to come after the landslide, it was good that the landslide came at night.
No phone coverage
A snow avalanche on county road 520 in Sauda has led to several households being isolated in Hellandsbygda.
Now they have set up a crisis team to keep track of the situation.
The inhabitants of Hellandsbygda do not have access to Sauda or telephone coverage. They must have internet access for communication.
– The municipality has a plan and the opportunity to use wheel loaders to plow past the landslide if life and health are at stake. We will also make sure that the home service reaches patients who need medication, says deputy mayor of Sauda municipality, Paul Løyning (H).
Deputy mayor of Sauda municipality, Paul Løyning (H).
Photo: Simon Elias Bogen / NRK
About 60 people live in the village. The municipality does not know how many people were at home there when the landslide occurred.
It is not certain how long the road will remain closed.
– The weather should remain bad according to the weather reports. An assessment will be made in due course about what happens next with the closed roads, says Løyning.
Villages in Suldal and Bjerkreim isolated
Nesflaten is also isolated after two avalanches occurred this morning along Suldalsvatnet. The Swedish Road Administration has closed national highway 13 from Helganes in Suldal to Røldal.
– Neither an ambulance nor emergency services will get through. This is a very demanding incident for the municipality, says construction manager in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Rolf Anders Tønder Svensson.
The road has been closed since yesterday afternoon, between Nesflaten and Røldal. This is a section prone to landslides.
– We are happy that it has gone well so far, says deputy mayor of Suldal municipality, Torbjørn Indrebø.
Nesflaten has approximately 214 permanent residents.
– Those who go to school will be homeschooled tomorrow. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration will make a new assessment tomorrow morning. It is too dangerous to enter the slide now, says Indrebø.
Several villages and roads are isolated as a result of landslides.
The village of Ørsdalen in Bjerkreim is also isolated, after a snow slide on the outside of the Ørsdal tunnel on county road 4316.
There, too, a new assessment will be made tomorrow, according to Remi Lian at Vegtrafikksentralen West.
County road 450 in Byrkjedal in Gjesdal is closed due to flooding. The same road is closed further up at Øvstebødalen due to rock falls. County road 503 in Byrkjedal is also closed as a result of landslides.
Power line taken by landslide
A power line has also been taken by rock fall in Øvstebødalen in Gjesdal. That is according to Christian Strømme at the Traffic Center.
298 Lnett customers will be affected in the area. Lnett writes on its pages that the power will not return today.
Gjesdal mayor Frode Fjeldsbø states that all children must have made it home before the road was closed. Fjeldsbø assumes that many of Lnett’s affected customers are cabins in the area.
– There are some farms in the area that have lost power. We are now working to see how we can help them.
2024-01-22 15:42:56
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