Austria the 15th of September 2024 for hours
Emergency Services throughout lower Austria have been battling against the heavy rainfall
that is hitting the East End of the State State Governor Johanna mck Lightner OD SVP told off on
Sunday morning that the situation throughout the state had further worsened in the past few hours
weather experts are also expecting further heavy rainfall which is why the state leadership has
decided to declare the entire State a disaster area M Lightner told all the floods are now
getting closer and closer to the capital as a video from perur DWF can't get out anymore in the
municipality of perur dorf which borders directly on Vienna a reader reporter video shows the full
force of nature as can be seen in the clip a River overflowed completely on Sunday night directly
in front of an apartment building they are still there they can't really get out because there
is water everywhere said a friend of the couple residents are informed about the latest
information on the perkas dorf municipality's website entire state is now a disaster protection
area attention perkus dorf is severely affected by the flooding we ask everyone to remain calm the
fire brigade has been on duty for 18 hours and is trying to process all emergency calls as quickly
as possible the website States among other things fire brigades and constant operation hydrologists
are expecting extremely heavy rainfall in the next few hours up to 60 mm in the central region in
the next 6 hours and up to 40 mm across lower Austria this means that there is already and will
continue to be massive flooding throughout the country Deputy Governor Stefan perps OD diasis
VP told the APPA avoid unnecessary Journeys and trips this will endanger yourself and possibly the
Emergency Services said the state Vice governor