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Helicopters evacuate 500 from Austrian Ski Resort of Planneralm

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500 people have been evacuated from Planneralm after avalanches cut the village off.

Avalance risk is at 5 for the Province of Styria, the risk is at 4 in Kitzbuhel...

See: full story
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This resort is at the heart of the Steiermark area where we yesterday reported the greatest current snow depths in Austria (over 4 metres on high slopes) - see separate news item. Planneralm is a fairly remote resort at the end of a valley which has quite substantial slopes above it. As the Expatica story suggests the avalanche threat (or blockage in this case) is to the connecting road to the resort, rather than the resort itself. So when the valley is a dead-end like this, helicopter evacuation is the only way to get people out.

Resorts like Zermatt in Switzerland have faced similar situations historically - sometimes cut off for several days - and have needed helicopter 'transfers' from time to time.

Snow depths of 4 metres+ are rare in that part of Austria, so presumably any avalanche barriers above the road haven't been designed for this threat.


Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Sat 5-02-05 0:02; edited 1 time in total
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Here is the NETWORLD link on the evacuation in German.

It is about only 300 people, mostly schoolkids, the other 280 turned down the help and decided to stay in the village.
It was a busy day for the rescue team is Styria (Steiermark), 3000 workers and 17 helicopters helped the operation.

On this page you can find a table showing the avalanches in Steiermark since 1996 including dates, places, short description, and the numbers of casulties.

And another avalanche related link from Austria (in German) just to strenghten the fact that you need to be careful these days.
A four-meter-high avalanche buried the house of a family in Grundlsee while they were sleeping. The whole family including a seven-month-old baby were rescued though the window.

A farm was buried by avalanche in Ochsenkopf, killing some animals kept in the farm and seriously damaging their buildings.

You can find the link here:
http://www.kleine.at/nachrichten/chronik/artikel/_667086/index.jsp
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It would be nice to get snowed in in Zermatt next week. Very Happy
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