August 30, 2021 is burned into the memory of the people in the settlement on Seebach in Oberdorfen.
Their homes were flooded.
Oberdorfen
- A quarter of an hour that changed the lives of residents in the Seebach settlement: on August 30 - exactly 100 days ago - almost all the houses there were flooded.
The water rose to half a meter outside, then shot through the streets and ran into the buildings.
The floods carried away what they got.
200 people were evacuated, 30 cellars overflowed, and some of the brown broth stood on the ground floor.
After extensive rainfall at the end of August, it rained through the night on August 30th, more than 50 liters per square meter were measured in the Erding district.
But this time it was not the Isen, which had already caused many floods, that became dangerous to the Oberdorf residents, but the Seebach.
A small, inconspicuous ditch that drains the agricultural area between Oberdorf and Landersdorf.
But that's exactly where a flood wave built up.
Simone Ascher's house is at the end of the settlement, across from the Seebach.
Her husband was sitting in the living room, working on the laptop.
He looked outside and saw how the water in the meadow in front of the house rose more and more.
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Everything had to go: Simone Yelderin helped the Fellermeier family with the clean-up work.
© Michaele Heske
The management consultant actually wanted to drive to the airport in the next hour.
Fortunately, his immediate neighbor came over several times to give him additional warnings, remembers the family man.
He went up and swapped his suit pants for shorts.
"Then everything happened very quickly," he says.
“I went to the cellar door and saw the water going up the stairs ever further and faster.
Outside, too, everything was full of water, flooded through the rubber seal of the closed patio door, ”he says.
He went out without thinking.
"I opened the front door so that the water can flow through the house, so to speak - that was maybe our great luck."
Simone Ascher was meanwhile with her daughter (5) and son (8) in the hardware store.
"I called her and said: Bring rubber boots." He also advised her to take the children away.
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The house of Simone Ascher and her family is still a building site for many weeks.
© Michaele Heske
He remembered the sirens.
And the force with which the doors were torn out.
“I've never seen anything like it.” In this situation, you act automatically, says the 49-year-old.
"The emotions came much later."
Ascher describes the hours and days that followed: “On the one hand, there were everyday questions: Where should we stay overnight?
When will there be electricity again? ”Then the pendulum swung to the big questions.
“Can we still live in the settlement at all?
What is happening to the house?
Can that happen again? ”And again the decisive factor back to the current things that now had to be done.
The feeling of those affected: “It will be a bigger story.” And indeed: The Ascher family will not spend Christmas in their own house any more than their neighbors.
“We spent the first few nights in the hotel,” recalls the actress.
"We were out until late at night, had to organize a lot and make phone calls." Now the family lives in an apartment in the middle of Dorfen.
Then it was time to clean up.
"At first I was paralyzed in the face of the great chaos," says Simone Ascher.
Most of the things that were stored in the basement had to go.
“Everything was full of mud.
We tried to hose down some parts with a high-pressure cleaner - but you can't get the smell of liquid manure out, everything just stank. "
The day after the flood, there were washing machines or food in soaked cardboard boxes, books, photos - everything that was stored in the basement in front of all the houses in the settlement.
Containers were set up, the local residents tried to get a grip on the chaos that was everywhere in the settlement.
Fear and shock were reflected on their faces.
I am glad that there were no injuries or deaths, ”said Martin Bayerstorfer, who inspected the damage on site.
The district administrator had declared a disaster for Dorfen: “We wanted to make sure.
We had to assume the worst scenario. "
