Fallen trees, cut telephone line, damage in the woods: hurricane Sabine whistled over the northern district for two days
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - The second wave of the hurricane low "Sabine" in the night on Tuesday gave the emergency services work again. Stefan Kieskalt, spokesman for the district fire brigades, counted eight “storm-related” alarms until late morning - mostly in the northern district. "In all cases, the trees were overturned," says Kieskalt.
One operation even made it into the B5 news early on: a telephone line was cut shortly before 3 a.m. in Gelting. "Halfway between the district road Töl 22 and the Schwaigwall manor, a fallen tree cut the line exactly between two masts," reports Geretsried's fire department commander Erik Machowski. The colleagues from the Geltinger weir had removed the tree. Telekom technicians wanted to take care of the repair. The retirement and nursing home was separated from the landline for a few hours.
Around 12.20 p.m., the helpers received another call from Gelting. A handsome spruce had tipped over a house on Ostergartenstrasse. "Because there was no acute danger," said Vice Commandant Florian Mayrhofer, the local Geltinger weir decided to have a specialist company take care of the dismantling and removal of the tree, which weighed several tons.
In the area of responsibility of Robert Nörr, Sabine also let off steam - if not as seriously as feared. "No large areas are affected," says Wolfratshausen's district forester, "we have single and nest litters, mostly thick, tall spruce trees have been felled." The hurricane is therefore not a catastrophe from a forest standpoint. Nörr summarizes his balance sheet in three key words: "annoying, expensive, unnecessary". The problem: The trees are very distributed. This makes transportation difficult and time-consuming. However, it must be done before the bark beetle flies for the first time. In general, Nörr's area “got off lightly. Experience shows that the storms from the northwest are the most dangerous. So it could have been worse for us. ”
According to Christian Webert, Nörr's assessment applies to the forests in the entire district. The forest director in the Office for Food and Agriculture in Holzkirchen was "somewhat on the way towards the mountains" and "saw mostly single litters" there too. Lucky, he sums up. But: If the storm subsides now, according to Webert, this does not mean that one should enter the forests immediately. “It remains dangerous there. People should definitely consider closures and give forest owners the time to clear critical trees and branches. ”
Commuters who depend on the S-Bahn also had to be patient and nervous on Tuesday. The reason: Traffic on line S 7 between Baierbrunn and Wolfratshausen was still blocked. While the technicians were working "at high pressure to repair the damage", as it was said, the passengers had to switch to the replacement rail transport with buses between Baierbrunn and Wolfratshausen.
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