Clean up in the Vorarlberg ski resort of Lech after days of fierce downpours across Switzerland, Austria and Germany
Residents clean up in the Vorarlberg ski resort of Lech, Austria August 24, 2005. Lakes and rivers burst their banks after days of fierce downpours across Switzerland, Austria and Germany, cutting off roads, power and communications from hundreds of communities. In Austria, the death toll rose to three on Wednesday and a fourth person was missing, feared drowned, police said. In Austria, an emergency cabinet meeting pledged swift aid to homeowners and farmers while flood waters receded after the rain petered out in the hardest hit provinces of Vorarlberg and Tyrol, bordering Switzerland and Bavaria.
