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Here comes the avalanche:- Survive this?

the joint rescue coordination centre Southern Norway, reported just before the clock 15 about an avalanche over the Road 63 Geiranger. Avalanche is approx. 100

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Here comes the avalanche:- Survive this?

the joint rescue coordination centre Southern Norway, reported just before the clock 15 about an avalanche over the Road 63 Geiranger. Avalanche is approx. 100 metres wide and five metres high.

Sander Mossberg Hjelle (20) got the event captured on video. He stands out when the snow comes sweeping towards him down the mountainside.

- Dad! Avalanche, shouting Hjelle, before he gets to come indoors.

Survive this? ask the father Karl Øyvind Hjelle.

- Thought not

Facing the Newspaper says Sander Mossberg Furniture that he quickly realized that it was not the landslide that came against him, but løssnø that came after through the air.

- It is a river that separates us and the landslide, and I knew that it was so wide and deep that it must have been a very large landslide if it were to come here, " says Hjelle.

He and his father worked in a cabin they renovates in Geiranger. Hjelle says that neither the cabin or they were damaged.

- What you thought when you saw it coming toward you?

- I thought not really. I thought well just that I had to have filmed it. I realized pretty quickly that I had to tell my dad, too. He nailed with ear defenders on, " says Hjelle.

No missing

Just before at 16 on Thursday, it was reported that one or two cars could be taken by the avalanche. An hour later enlightened the police that they had not observed the cars in the avalanche.

- We have crews on site now, both skredeksperter and dogs, and we have the equipment to search in the area. Currently, we can't do it because of the dense blowing snow, and that it thus becomes difficult to assess the risk of new landslides. WE are waiting on a væropphold so that we get the illuminated side, and set about we can send crews in, " says Borge Andam, operasjonsleder in the county of Møre and Romsdal police district, to Dagbladet.

No one is missed in the area.

- There is no indication that some cars are taken by the avalanche. We can nevertheless not exclude it, " says Andam.

Police work Thursday afternoon to get søkeutstyr and crews to the area. A rescue helicopter was sent from Florø to rasstedet, but the dense blowing snow caused difficulties for the helicopter, informs the police, according to NTB.

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