{"id":116779,"date":"2024-08-18T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/austria-parts-of-vienna-under-water-after-record-rainfall-as-cars-swept-through-ski-resort\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:46:09","slug":"austria-parts-of-vienna-under-water-after-record-rainfall-as-cars-swept-through-ski-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/austria-parts-of-vienna-under-water-after-record-rainfall-as-cars-swept-through-ski-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria: Parts of Vienna under water after record rainfall – as cars swept through ski resort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heavy rain in Austria has left parts of Vienna under water and caused severe damage in parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Fast-moving torrents of muddy water swept cars through the ski resort of St Anton in western Austria.<\/p>\n

A woman was dragged under a bus by the force of flooding in the Dobling area of Vienna.<\/p>\n

She was reportedly taken to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

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Fire services in Austria’s capital city were called out more than 450 times on Saturday amid the heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n

“Heavy storms have done great damage in many parts of Austria,” the country’s chancellor Karl Nehammer said.<\/p>\n

In Dobling, officials registered 110 litres of rain per square metre, which ORF Vienna meteorologist Kevin Hebenstreit said was a record for August rainfall in the city.<\/p>\n

A large proportion of Vienna’s average summer rainfall hit on Saturday in just one hour, according to weather data firm UBIMET.<\/p>\n

Wildfires in Greece and Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Europe, wildfires have raged this summer, with Turkey and Greece battling dangerous fires this week.<\/p>\n

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In Turkey, high winds and warm temperatures exacerbated fires across the country that thousands of firefighters have fought to bring under control.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, wildfires in Greece<\/a><\/strong> gutted an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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Southern Europe has been baked by successive heatwaves<\/a><\/strong> and low levels of rainfall this year, contributing to the tinderbox conditions.<\/p>\n

A factory worker was killed in the fires in Greece as they swept through mountainous areas, not far from Athens.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes in Turkey, but there have been no reported casualties there.<\/p>\n

Abdullah Ozata, a Turkish livestock farmer who survived fires that burned through where he lived, told Sky News: “It was beautiful but now it has turned into hell.<\/p>\n

“A place like paradise turned into hell. You can see it all around.”<\/p>\n

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Wildfires have also been seen in Madeira, Portugal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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