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Flood-stricken Swiss ski resort plans to re-open on 10 September
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The Swiss resort of Engelberg, severely affected by recent flood damage, intends to reopen on 10 September. The village, high above the Lake of Lucerne, is currently cut off by road and rail. A temporary road connection is currently under construction. Tourists were evacuated last week by helicopter.
Urgent resumption of business is vital for the resort, since it enjoys year-round trade based on the Titlis Glacier and sightseeing.
This news was released on Saturday 27 August by the local tourist office:
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The holiday resort of Engelberg has been partly badly damaged owing to torrential rain at the beginning of the week. Fortunately no lives have been lost or anyone harmed.
According to up-to-date information it should be possible for guests and inhabitants to reach Engelberg by a temporary road as from the 10th September 2005. More about this will be given at a later date.
From the 10th September we hope to be able to offer our holiday guests normal facilities as most shops, restaurants, cable-cars and hotels have not been damaged to any great extent.
Webcam images from the resort have been unchanged since 22 August (at the time of this posting) so it is not possible to see the impact on the glacier at present. Based on the torrential local rains, which generally fell as snow elsewhere in the Alps above 3000m, it's assumed that very heavy snowfall took place on the Titlis glacier.
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A snowHead on Tue 30-08-05 23:04; edited 1 time in total
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
shame the webcams haven't been updated
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Sadly there's been quite a thaw at those altitudes since the deluge, so maybe we'll never see all that freak snow.
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It would have looked good,shame thou
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