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Young people from the area are helping to build dikes with sandbags to save the farm Irvingsholm in Tysslinge outside Örebro from the high water levels. Picture from Wednesday.
1 / 2Photo: Pavel Koubek/TT
They’ve been fighting the water all night – and it’s still rising.
The farm Irvingsholm outside Örebro is one of many businesses affected by high water levels.
– We will probably have to do all day today as well, says the farm owner and egg producer Lars-Håkan Jonsson.
Lars-Håkan Jonsson laughs dejectedly when he is asked how he is doing.
– I don’t know how to describe it? I’m tired.
He himself got a couple of hours of sleep last night – but many of his colleagues and employees haven’t slept at all.
– I’m old so I’ve been at home and slept for a few hours, but many have worked all night. Those who were working yesterday drove until now, so they have been working for 24 hours now, he says, adding:
– We are hunting for new people now. We still have sealing to do.
They have, with help from MSB and the rescue service, worked frantically to build dikes to protect the farm’s large facilities from the masses of water. The water in Tysslingesjön is still rising, but according to the forecast it should turn during the day, says Lars-Håkan Jonsson.
Thanks to the large pumps that MSB assisted with, it has been possible to continuously pump back the rising water and save the farm’s 100,000 chickens.
Worse seems to be the case with the large amounts of grain that are currently under water.
TT: How will it affect you financially?
– A lot. There will be a lack of wheat to bake on, everything will be just fodder. And that probably applies more or less to most of Sweden, as it has been such extreme weather, Lars-Håkan Jonsson.