WEBVTT - Franz_Lorenz file: Lorenz_Franz_220.txt

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The morning after

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we tried to get to my son with two army
helicopters.

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They had arrived during the night or in
the early morning.

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We hadn't been able to contact him
because the power was out

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up there. The small power plant

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is run by water.

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The stream flows by above the hut

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and is rerouted onto the turbine.

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From both sides of the valley

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above the hut, two enormous avalanches

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had come down and covered the whole
plateau.

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So the stream was blocked.

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That means no more water was directed to
the turbine

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so he didn't have any electricity and we
couldn't reach him.

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The second day after the disaster

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the weather

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finally permitted us

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to fly up to him and...

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That was hardest

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of my life. To go to him...

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But he had a presentiment. Using a
battery powered

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ultra-short wave receiver

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he had been able to listen

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to the police radio. He didn't know any
names

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but he knew that something terrible

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had happened in Galtür.When we were

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finally able to reach him by helicopter

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I took our deacon,

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the local lay priest with me,

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for support.

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He's about the same age as Gottlieb.
Afterwards Gottlieb told us

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he knew that something

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very horrible had happened the moment he
saw us

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getting out of the helicopter.