Marcus Lindgren lives together with his wife and their three children in Degersjö, about seven kilometers outside Skorped in Örnsköldsvik municipality. Outside the house passes road 914 which leads to Skorped, where the children go to school and the family has its mailbox.
On Saturday evening it started raining. Then we heard how it poured down. Then on Sunday morning we saw how some who had gotten it into their heads to go out and hunt elk posted a clip on Facebook that the road was completely gone.
The road is gone
He drove directly there to check the situation and put up warning tape so that no one would happen to drive down into the hole.
And then the road was completely gone. And the water was rushing and it was thundering and rumbling so into the reeds. Then we also got to see pictures that showed that it was landsliding more and more in Skorped.
At the place where the road was gone, a stream passes under, where a new road culvert was laid a few years ago.
There is now a trench, one can say, it lacks between six and eight meters of road. So it's a 90-degree steep down.
Further away towards Skorped, a stretch of about 100-150 meters of road is completely washed away, he says.
One measured up to 176 milliliters according to SMHI's calculations. There are no road culverts or any preparedness that can handle that amount.
Taxi ride
As the road where the school bus usually passes was destroyed, the children had to stay home on Monday. But the municipality quickly arranged for a taxi ride which has been able to drive them via other roads to school. A journey that is usually seven kilometers has now become about seven miles.
Everyone has stepped up and done what they can. They are doing a fantastic job all around, says Marcus Lindgren.
The concern now is mainly about the places further downstream, he says. There, the water has continued to rise as it moves downstream, and later in the week, new large amounts of rain are expected.
I rent from a potato farmer in Sidensjö who is very hard hit. He has most of his harvest under water. The water has risen 70-80 centimeters there in two days, over his potato field and filled the basement and all sorts of things.
