Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

St. Nikolaus

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1939

But, I was only 15 years. So that was a terrible year, not only because of the option. Verwüschtet was very cold. Of 14 to 15 Auguscht was a storm overnight and has completely devastated Kaltern. The whole way - then there was still no asphalt - were impassable. Since you have not - not 100 yards are left where the road would have been in a normal Zuastand - impassable. Mountains of debris floated down on the Strassner of the vineyard and out of the wells that you have nowhere to go, so for some time. And no machinery for action! Everything put away only with no pick and shovel. That was the summer. The people - full of all debt in 1939! Full of debt! And since so many people have been indifferent? the damage that has caused because of the weather there in the vineyards, mainly in the steep slopes are not. And on the plains? as high material .. of the vineyards, washed away by the steep slopes. And as I said, all the streams which have flooded everything. In St Anton over there, there is the torrent of the Mendlbahn, .. - Fussertal is this - come down with rocks and trees. And .. Houses have been there, where the torrent is under it. Below in and on the other side out. And later the house has been, they have hung back with chains, because the torrent has been wolfed down. .. Therefore, they have hung it back in the night. No light is not! No electricity, no! Hell - the hell was there. And then looked like it! The main square of cold was about one meter, the whole, with material fully. The fountain, as it has in the middle looked out from the well, only the lower part of the whole fountain, all full. And the slope up to the parking lot that has been impassable. Trenches two feet .. All the lines, all in the air. That was not the weather. And then the - well, I know there's all about the weather, yes, damages up out there!