AUSTRIA: FLOOD WATER LEVELS ACROSS COUNTRY ARE FALLING AS RESIDENTS BEGIN TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES
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AUSTRIA: FLOOD WATER LEVELS ACROSS COUNTRY ARE FALLING AS RESIDENTS BEGIN TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES
- Title: AUSTRIA: FLOOD WATER LEVELS ACROSS COUNTRY ARE FALLING AS RESIDENTS BEGIN TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES
- Date: 19th August 2002
- Summary: (W6) WINKL, AUSTRIA (AUGUST 17 202) (REUTERS) 1. SLV TRACTOR DRIVING THROUGH VILLAGE; FAMILY ON TRACTOR (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SLV MARTIN KRIEL STANDING IN FRONT OF HIS RESTAURANT; MV DAMAGE INSIDE RESTAURANT; MV KRIEL ENTERING BUILDING (9 SHOTS) 0.57 3. SOUNDBITE (German) MARTIN KRIEL, CHOKING WITH EMOTION, SAYING "I lost one million Schillings" 1.08 4. MARTIN KRIEL PUTTING POLE ADVERTISING HIS RESTAURANT BACK INTO ITS PLACE; MV FAMILY CLEANING UP INSIDE HOUSE; SCU GIRL CRYING; MV WOMAN CLEANING UP KITCHEN; MV EMPTY BATHROOM, WATER STILL COVERING FLOOR (7 SHOTS) 2.08 5. SLV FAMILY WALKING IN FRONT OF HOUSE, STREET COVERED IN WATER AND MUD 2.17 6. SOUNDBITE (German) WOMAN SAYING "It all looks dreadful. There is nothing left, all the furniture is ruined, the floors are ruined. We don't know how to go on at the moment. It is an indescribable feeling." 2.32 7. MV MAN STANDING OUTSIDE HOUSE WITH WASHING MACHINES; TRACKING SHOT FROM TRACTOR SHOWING DAMAGED HOUSES (4 SHOTS) 2.55 8. SLV DUCKS FEEDING IN YARD; MV PIGS IN BARN (4 SHOTS) 3.13 9. SOUNDBITE (German) ANDREAS BIROCHS SAYING "We had water up to half the height of the barn, a metre high. Then we started to evacuate the pigs. Luckily none of them died because of the flooding." 3,28 10. SLV MAN STANDING IN FLOODED STREET WITH A FISH HE FOUND IN WATER IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE (3 SHOTS) 3.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 3rd September 2002 13:00
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- Location: WINKL, AUSTRIA
- Country: Austria
- Reuters ID: LVA5Y4V4BVYJF9HVMYGDLRVYMWD7
- Story Text: Water levels across Austria are falling and residents
in flood stricken areas started returning to their homes.
With water and mud still covering the streets of Winkl,
local villagers had to use tractors to get to their houses on
Saturday (August 17, 2002).
"I lost a million Schillings (250,000 euro)", said
Martin Kriel, as he stood in front of his destroyed
belongings piled up in a garden.
All morning him and his family were pumping out water
from the kitchen and rooms on the ground floor.
His restaurant, which specializes in offering traditional
Austrian foods was almost completely ruined. Furniture,
electrical appliances and food lay scattered around.
His neighbour Andreas Birochs did not have time to
evacuate animals from his pig farm when water burst
into Winkl on Tuesday after the Kamp River spilled over.
"Luckily none of them died because of the flooding", he said.
The barn housing 50 pigs was filled with one meter of
water for two days.
A German tourist was identified as the eighth person to
die in northern Austria this week after his body was washed up
some 180 km (110 miles) from where he was last seen leaving a
pub nine days ago.
Some 10,000 homes are thought to have been left uninhabitable
by floods in northern Austria earlier this week.
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