Nobody really wants to sit in a gondola when a wild storm is raging, like the “Maya” storm front has been doing since Sunday. The passengers of a gondola lift in Tyrol, ten minutes away from Innsbruck, were lucky.
The last guest had just got out on Sunday evening when it started and the gondolas began to twirl around wildly, as shown in the video by one of our “Krone” reader reporters. -Reader reporter, who sent us the video, which makes you feel really queasy when you look at it.”Greatest caution””Fortunately, the last passenger had already left the train, the storm then came as a surprise while we were already at it, the to garage gondolas. We did that with the utmost caution and everything went well,” he said, clearly relieved that nothing happened. Hail and heavy rain From Sunday to Monday, the storm “Maya” brought hail, heavy rain and gusts of wind of up to 140 kilometers per hour in Austria. Damage occurred in many federal states, and the emergency services were heavily challenged. They recorded more than 1000 operations, around 800 of them in Upper Austria alone. After “Maya” has left, summer temperatures are a long time coming. The weather will remain unsettled for the next few days.
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