“Even a day without electricity in Alfridas tracks”
“Kallduschar, closed schools and breakfast to candlelight. Thousands of households in Stockholm county woke up to another day without power after the storm Alfridas rampage.”
“According to preliminary information from the Waterfalls is expected the tide to be back at the earliest on Thursday evening.”
“– unfortunately We have a power failure, and has probably closed in the morning. We can blame the Waterfall.”
“Disappointed bathers receives the message in the door of the Gustavsbergsbadets ceo Elisabeth Strömberg.”
“the Bathhouse which is located just outside of Gustavsberg town centre was hit worse by the storm when the electricity supply which is worse than in the urban area. The bathhouse was closed on Wednesday and will remain closed until the power is back. Because the ventilation does not work without power kept the doors to the swimming pool open. It smokes from the tanks when the water vapor meets the cold air.”
“A normal weekday during the christmas break, visited the baths of approximately 1,500 people, which means a loss of about sek 150 000 on the day when the bath is kept closed,” explains Elisabeth Strömberg.”
“the Longest outage so far.”
“In the residential area of Ösby Gate, we meet Maria Sundström, who started the day with a cold shower before hundpromenaden. The stream disappeared at four o’clock on Wednesday morning and is expected to be back only on Friday night.”
“– We have 14 degrees at home so it would have been nice with a wood burning stove, ” she says.”
“During the 29 years she lived in the area she has grown accustomed to periodic power outages.”
“– But it has never lasted this long, ” says Maria Sundström who are worried about how the food in the freezer will cope.”
“On Ingarö a few miles further south, kept the school in the Lemshaga closed due to the outage.”
“– We have no heating and no electricity and can’t cook simply, ” says dean Jill Sterner.”
“Because it still is the holidays, it is only the students who are registered for the recreational activities that are involved,” says Jill Sterner and adds that it is difficult to reach out to all parents when the many have power cuts even in the home and therefore are difficult to reach.”
“the School has previously been affected by the power outage but it is the first time it decided to stay closed.”
“According to Lee Gidlöf, head of communications at Vattenfall Eldistribution, is the damage on the power grid very wide. Above all, it’s on the trees that fall on power lines. Even the electricity poles have been broken and in some cases parts of the electricity grid and ended up on the ground.”
“– We are in the flygbesiktiga the entire grid to see what there is for damage, ” she says.”
“According to the latest forecast expected the power to be back at the earliest in the evening.”
