(Dagbladet): a Large snowfall and lots of wind have led to a number of thousand households in the South have been without power since Saturday.
At the peak of 10 000 households without power.
The newly arrived winter in agderfylkene has led to more homes have been freezing without strømoppvarmingen.
Not only the lack of heat and light in houses has created challenges, but many places also do not telefondekning.
Set krisestab
At 23-time Sunday evening was the only Aust-Agder who were affected by the lack of electricity over, according to the Agder Energi on their websites.
In Vegårshei municipality in Aust-Agder have the set krisestab and evacuating dependent residents, writes NRK Sørlandet.
- We have offered to dependent people to sleep at the nursing home in the night. There are many who are not able to look after themselves, so that’s why we offered them help, ” says Kirsten Helen Marsh (Sp), mayor of Vegårshei municipality, to the Newspaper.
Many of the electricity customers in the counties of Aust-Agder has been not had the power and telefondekning since 12-time yesterday.
3600 without electricity
Agder Energi, as the leading power in southern norway, have been working frantically all day to get set up to the mains again, but at the 23-time on Sunday was about 3000 households in Aust-Agder county still without power.
the Weather in the past day has made the trees and lines as blytunge of snow that has fallen down.
It I get a message about, is that this is a very special weather phenomenon. What happened yesterday was that mildvær that started with rain, changed to sleet and later snow. It became colder and colder and it builds up with snow and ice on the trees. When they become too heavy, they fall down on lines, ” says Unni Farestveit, director of communications at Agder Energi, to Fædrelandsvennen.
Five to the nursing home
In Vegårshei has those with the greatest needs for assistance have been contacted.
because of deficiencies in the coverage of large parts of the municipality have multiple received guests at the door from the municipality, with questions about whether they want to sleep a warmer place in the night.
So far, five people accepted to sleep at the nursing home in the municipality.
According to the mayor of the Marsh, there are more inhabitants in the municipality who have trygghetsalarmer, but that is now not working because of the power outage.
We have put krisestab to be on the safe side if anything should happen more. Among other things, is the extra security put into to those who have trygghetsalarmer that doesn’t work, ” says Kirsten Helen Marsh.
Will not give time
the Municipality has among other things put into the local fire service, the police and the technical department in case something should happen.
- We are on for full now. Unfortunately I can’t give any time for when customers get power back, informs the press contact Hanne Lives Refsnes at Agder Energi, to the NTB.
the Municipalities that are affected by the outage is Kristiansand, Iveland, Birkenes, Åmli, Grimstad, Arendal, Tvedestrand, Risør, Lillesand, Froland and Gjerstad, according to Fevennen.
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