Leafs: Spilled Village! After the Mountain Comes Also the Flood

The inhabitants of the Swiss Lötschental look stunned at a gigantic metre high rock and ice desert. Now the next catastrophe threatens after the glacier crash. A staid lake is likely to overflow in the morning hours.

After the devastating mountain fall in Blatten, the next catastrophe is already looming in the Lötschental: crowds of rubble dam the river Lonza. Does a tidal wave follow? Even from the mountain itself there is still a danger.

In the Swiss Valais, there was a gigantic glacial break. Then the river Lonza has stalled through the rocks and ice masses. Houses that were not buried in sheets are now flooded.

The inhabitants of the Swiss Lötschental do not come to rest. After the fall of the mountain, the river gives the village of Blatten the rest.

The mountain village of Blatten no longer exists. In its place, a river is stifling – the next catastrophe threatens. Current news in the blog.

watson/hanna hubacher, lucas ZollingerWith Blatten in Valais, there is a state of emergency at the moment, after a huge mountain fall buried a part of the village below it and a dammed river flooded the rest of it. watson reporter Hanna Hubacher traveled to the Lötschental valley to Wiler, as close to the place of the disaster as one comes at the moment to get a picture on site and to talk with the affected people. Daniel Ritler from the hamlet …