The heavy winter weather continues to make life difficult for many people in Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. Because of a lock of the A8 on Lake Chiemsee (Rosenheim district) in the extended border area with Austria sat last night, many people in partly heavy snowfall stuck in traffic.
The Bavarian Red Cross built care centers. The helpers should go out of the traffic jam and supply the people. Even in the early morning hours, the police could initially give no all-clear. In the fight against the snow masses in Bavaria, the rescue workers hope for better weather today. According to forecasts, the snowfall should temporarily subside a little.
Railway tracks heavily snowy
It is still unclear when the train traffic rolls in southern and eastern Bavaria again everywhere. Because the train no longer follows the snow on the roads, many connections are broken. Many roads are closed because of the snow and fallen trees. The fire brigade, technical relief organization and other helpers are in constant use to free roof collapsing roofs from snow loads.
A nine-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree near Munich. The tree collapsed yesterday in Aying under the heavy snow load, the police reported. Only after 40 minutes did witnesses discover the buried boys and alerted the rescue teams.
These tried in the afternoon for about an hour in vain to revive the child. According to the police, the ten-meter-tall tree stood on a private property and crashed onto a driveway.
Switzerland: avalanche thunders in hotel
In Switzerland, an avalanche about 300 meters wide rolled into a hotel restaurant yesterday afternoon, injuring three people easily. Police reported that emergency workers were looking for potential missing persons at Schwägalp in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden at an altitude of around 1,300 meters. In addition to technical equipment also avalanche dogs were used. In the evening, the search had to be stopped due to heavy snowfall for the time being.
