- Title: AUSTRIA: STORMS AND FLOODS CAUSE DAMAGE IN EASTERN AUSTRIA
- Date: 8th August 2002
- Summary: (W5) REHBERG DISTRICT OF KREMS, AUSTRIA (AUGUST 8, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. CLOSE UP OF WOMEN'S FEET IN THE MUD/ PULL-OUT TO WOMAN WALKING ACROSS MUD 0.10 2. WIDE OF MUD-COVERED ROAD/ PAN TO BLOCK OF FLATS WITH PEOPLE OUTSIDE TIDING UP 0.20 3. CLOSE OF SHOVELLING AND PUSHING WATER AWAY/ WIDE OF PEOPLE CLEARING MUD (2 SHOTS) 0,32 4. SCU SMALL BOY STARING OUT OF WINDOW 0.37 5. CLOSE UP OF FLOODED DOORSTEP 0.42 6. SLV WOMAN WALKING OUTSIDE HOUSE 0.47 7. VARIOUS, WOMEN AND MAN IN BEACH CLOTHING SHOVELLING MUD OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES (2 SHOTS) 0.57 8. CLOSE OF WOMEN SHOVELLING MUD ON PILE 1.06 9. WIDE OF FAST-FLOWING RIVER IN THE FOREGROUND AND TRUCK DRIVING DOWN ROAD BY THE RIVER 1.13 10. SMV ROAD DEBRIS BY SIDE OF FLOOD WATERS 1.18 11. VARIOUS, OF DIGGER CLEARING DEBRIS FROM THE FLOODING (2 SHOTS) 1.37 12. SLV MAN GOING INTO RESTAURANT WHICH WAS DAMAGED IN THE FLOODING 1.42 13. VARIOUS, BOYS SWEEPING AWAY THE FLOOD WATER 1.52 14. SMV RESTAURANT OWNER MR BRAUNER POINTING OUT THE LEVEL OF THE WATER AT IT'S HIGHEST POINT AND EXPLAINING THAT THAT IS WHERE IT CAME UP TO 1.59 15. CLOSE UP OF DAMAGED GOODS IN THE FRIDGE 2.03 16. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (German) RESTAURANT OWNER MR BRAUNER SAYING: "The whole restaurant, all the electricity - it's all ruined." 2.12 17. CLOSE OF DAMAGED ITEMS OUTSIDE THE RESTAURANT (2 SHOTS) 2.18 18. WIDE OF THE RESTAURANT WITH DAMAGED SLOT MACHINES STANDING OUTSIDE 2.21 19. CLOSE/ SLV CAR DAMAGED IN THE FLOODING STANDING IN THE MUD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 2.31 20. SLV OF FIRE ENGINES MOVING TOWARDS THE CAMERA 2.39 21. WIDE OF FIRE ENGINES DRIVING ALONG ROAD 2.47 22. SLV FIREMEN PUTTING ON PROTECTIVE CLOTHING 2.55 23. SMV FIRE ENGINES ARRIVING AT SITE 3.00 24. WIDE OF FIREMEN TAKING EQUIPMENT INTO HOUSES 3.08 25. SCU (SOUNDBITE) LOCAL MATHS TEACHER, JOSEF PROSKOWTISCH, SAYING: "Wachau is a world cultural area and from time to time there are big thunderstorms, this is the second this year. First it was the hail, now it's thunderstorms moving in from the Wald Viertel to the north of where we are. Everything here was flooded as you can see." 3.38 26. CLOSE UP OF TEDDY BEAR SITTING OUTSIDE HOUSE, HAVING BEEN RESCUED 3.43 24. VARIOUS OF WATER BEING PUMPED FROM FLOODED GARAGE 3.55 26. CLOSE-UPS OF FAST FLOWING WATERS IN THE KREMS RIVER 4.13 27. WIDE OF RIVER WITH CHURCH IN THE BACKGROUND 4.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 23rd August 2002 13:00
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- Location: KREMS, AUSTRIA
- Country: Austria
- Reuters ID: LVA5QLBR85J5OBYW7V69PNU4W2MV
- Story Text: Storms have battered parts of Austria causing vast
amounts of damage and forcing people out of their homes and
workplaces.
The storms showed no signs of letting up with
forecasters on Thursday (August 8) saying that more bad
weather is on the way.
The weather was hot and humid as many inhabitants of the
town of Krems in eastern Austria turned out to see the damage
that days of rain had caused. Many were wearing clothes more
usually seen on the beach as they shored up their homes and
shovelled away the mud that swept into the streets with the
flood water.
"The whole restaurant, all the electricity - it's all
ruined," said one restaurant owner in the town whose business
was flooded.
"Wachau is a world cultural area and from time to time
there are big thunderstorms, this is the second this year.
First it was the hail, now it's thunderstorms moving in from
the Wald Viertel to the north of where we are. Everything here
was flooded as you can see," said local maths teacher Josef
Proskowtisch standing in the mud outside his apartment block.
Firecrews have battled to pump water out of basements and
garages overwhelmed by the volume of rain falling over the
past few days.
In the neighbouring Czech Republic one young woman was
killed overnight as a tree fell onto a hut in which she was
staying.
Insurance payouts will run into millions of euros say
Austrian insurers.
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