Drizzle, heavier showers or persistent drizzle. The rain has once again found its way to Örnsköldsvik after the cloudbursts last weekend.
The floods that followed have changed the landscape. A few miles inland, fields have been transformed into lakes and road embankments have shrunk as the water rises.
In parallel with preparations for rising water levels, the roadworks that have been going on since Sunday continue.
On road 914, near Skorped, truck after truck with fill material is passing by. The cloudbursts have ravaged the road in several places and it will take a long time before the timber trucks can drive there again.
Driver Simon Hellström describes the impression when he saw the devastation:
It's the worst I've seen. I've seen the power of water, but this was something out of the ordinary.
Collapsed several meters
The section he and his colleagues are now repairing was a gigantic, crater-like pit, with the road railing hanging freely in the air and cables and sewage pipes lying exposed. What was a road had collapsed and sunk two, maybe three meters.
There must be several tons of gravel and stone from what was the road out in the forest, notes Simon Hellström.
He has been working from early morning to late evening all week and notes that the work on road 914 is only just beginning.
Further ahead, the road has collapsed in three to four more places.
"Like a beaver dam"
Near Anundsjösjön, between Bredbyn and Mellansel, the water masses along the mile-long lake have carried trees from Södra and Norra Anundsjöåarna, which flow together in Bredbyn.
It looked like a beaver dam, says Mikael Danielsson when he and his colleague Per Tjernberg return with the boat after clearing the debris with a chainsaw.
How many times they need to go out and clear the advancing water remains to be seen. It depends on how the next few days develop.
