It was NRK Hordaland who first publicized case. The violent snows primarily affected area by Vossestrand, approximately two mil outside Voss center.
Civil Defence came out already yesterday. Today they send a total of 13 persons to assist in snow removal work. It writes bt.no.
– They must remove snow from five municipal care units. The resources municipality possesses does not need to remove the snow fast enough. Tuesday was plus degrees up there, and then it becomes snow extra heavy, says operations Eivind Hovden in Civil Defence, Department Hordaland.
– Like heavy as 1,000 cars
Yesterday it was occasionally critical by Vossestrand omsorgstun. According Operations Hovden has built a roof surface of 2,500 square meters. It was covered by a half to two meters deep snow.
– Our calculations show that it is 400 kilograms per square meter of snow. It is as if we were placed 1,000 cars onto this roof, says Hovden.
Civil Defence estimates that there are nearly 600,000 cubic snow must be removed. During the night came it even more.
– It has snowed more or less the whole night, says Hovden.
More snow in wait
Vossings can moreover expect more snow throughout the day.
– It will bygevær Voss today. It’s so cold that precipitation likely as snow, said meteorologist Trond Thorsteinsson in weather prediction on the West Coast.
In Jordalen it was 7 o’clock Wednesday morning 2.45 meters of snow. There have also been a part of snow during the night and in the morning hours.
– It is not easy to see how more much snow coming, but they can certainly expect any snow today and tomorrow, he says.
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