Several houses inundated by massive rainfall – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): A number of cellars in Ås in Akershus is filled with water.

– Now we have ten addresses we are in the same area. It is a commercial building where there is major damage, while the rest are private homes, says shift leader Emergency Fire East, Morten Ravneng, told Dagbladet.

– Water over all floors

Several fire engines are on site to limit the damage including the pumping of water.

Blomsterbutikken Ås Flowers in the commercial building that is hardest injured .

– There is water over all floors, says CEO Ås flowers, Kristin Eidsvoll, told Dagbladet.

It was around 17.00 o’clock in the afternoon she noticed that the water began to flow from the drain in the floor.

– We are now trying to pump water away. The fire department is here and helps us, she says.

Can be new July record

Duty weather forecaster at the Meteorological Institute, Espen Biseth Granan, says that it is likely that there will be new rainfall record on the hill for July.

– It rains in some places in Eastern Norway still, but it starts to lose it’s activity. There have been a lot locally, especially on the hill. It is possible that there will be new July record. They were very much in a few hours, he said.

He stressed that the sums figures during the evening.