The police report on Monday afternoon that three truck trains are blocking the E6 at Karlebotn in Eastern Finnmark. – Salvage should have started, but you can expect that there will be some waiting at the site, reports the police. One of those who has experienced the forces of nature is Eva Lyngvær from Vadsø. Seeing wagon trains lying strewn on the side of the road is not an everyday occurrence, even in this part of the country. The danger warnings are in a queue in northern Norway today and in the days ahead. Graphic: Meteorological Institute Every few minutes today, she and her husband passed two trailers and a car that had blown off the road between Nyelv and Karlebotn. The weather-exposed mountain section lies between Kirkenes and Vadsø. Later another trailer had problems. – I have never experienced anything like a storm on this stretch, she says. Strong wind in combination with snowdrifts made the drive along the smooth road quite unpleasant. The stretch between Karlebotn and Nyelv is very windy. She says that it was strewn, but that the sand had blown off the road. – It was so windy that the snow shovel on the left side was white, and on the right side, there was the gravel. – Sand does not stick to the road Lyngvær says that they have heard talk that the sand that is sprinkled with does not stick to the road. news has also received several tips that the sand used does not measure up. This is confirmed by Morten Fjellheim, traffic operator in the Norwegian Road Administration. He says that ice on the road, in combination with strong wind, makes it difficult to get loose sand to lie on the road. – Now we don’t know if that is the reason why the trailer has slipped. Unfortunately, I cannot answer that, because I have no information about that, says Fjellheim. This is what it might look like on the E6 past Karlebotn on a mild winter’s day. The recording was made recently. According to Fjellheim, the contractor must try to lay out firm sand on the stretch. It is a more powerful current, which sits better on the road and spreads a little more sand per metre. – Then you can hopefully increase the friction a little on that stretch, says Fjellheim. Turn around with sports kids news knows that in November there was also a car that blew off the road on the same stretch. A bus with sports kids from Alta chose not to set off over the mountain section. They took a detour of five extra hours through Finland, on their trip from Vadsø to Kirkenes. Eva Lyngvær believes the stretch of road should have been closed today as the wind was at its worst with gusts of up to 25 m/s according to the yr. – There must have been more wind than I think, she says. The road was closed on Monday afternoon. Heaviest rain in ten years State meteorologist Ingvild Villa tells news that close to 100 millimeters of rainfall is expected in several places in northern Norway in 24 hours. – It will be wet and windy. And a lot of rain, mostly in the outer regions, says Villa. The heavy rain is expected in advance to be among the heaviest in the last ten years, and up to 50-90 mm is expected in 24 hours, and locally there may be more. The mild weather leads to a great risk of avalanches throughout the country. In Troms and Nordland it is at danger level 4, which is significant, while in Finnmark the warning is at 3. A number of roads are closed. Including Saltfjellet. Published 09.12.2024, at 15.18 Updated 09.12.2024, at 18.26
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