Heaviest rainfall in 50/100 years mid/west Norway - serious flooding
 

According to the newsmedia and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
(dnmi.no) areas in the provinces of Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal
plus Sogn og Fjordane and Oppland has had the heaviest rainfall in
50 to 100 years.
During the heavy rainfall of Wedensday, Thursday and Friday the rivers
of the region swelled and flodded low-lying areas, cut off many roads,
blocked the main railroad Oslo-Trondheim (near Oppdal), cut off the
main road (E6) at the same area and destroyed many bridges and
buildings.
Also the main road between Ålesund and Bergen, near Ørsta, was cut off
and an emergency ferry was set up to evade the cut off road (see
www.smp.no).
Many camping grounds has been set under water, in one place - Valldal
about 70 camping wagons were set under water.
Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from threatened areas by
helicopters or other means.
At several stations the rainfall passed 100 mm in 24 hours, a few had
160 mm in 48 hours.
At least 50 mill. NOK of damage according to the newspaper
'Adressavisen' (adressa.no).
DNMI regrets that the record high rainfall was not correctly
forecasted as critics towards them was raised that the local
population had not warned in advance.
About ten roads are still closed, among them the E6 south of Oppdal.

Bjørn Sørheim,
in Norway
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