The beauty treatment would just start. Then a wave of brown, ice cold, water through the front door and electrical outlets at the beauty salon in Jönköping. It only takes a few seconds so it went up to the knees, says Emelie Svartz, who runs the salon.
A massive water leaks paralyzed parts of central Jönköping on Monday. It is the second that affects the city in a short time.
– I got the waters here this summer so I had just come back after the renovation, says Emelie Svartz which runs the beauty salon Dione Beauty with Care.
When the water started to rush into the premises this time, she had just been ready to receive a customer.
– There was water everywhere. We tried to take towels at the door and close out the water but it went so fast, says Emelie Svartz.
“Seek almost to death”
For an hour and a half, she estimates that the premises were water -filled.
– We didn’t come out on the street it was just more water so we had nowhere to go. We had to stand there for an hour and a half. After all, we almost froze, she says.
– The lips were blue and the hands icy.
The municipality: proper damage
At 14 o’clock the water is away from the salon-but the chaos caused by the leak is still evident with creepy clay all over the floor. Emelie Svartz estimates that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been wasted.
Not to mention the mental stress.
– You feel very empty. I have tenants who couldn’t even start their business. All their decor was brand new. It’s a shock.
According to the municipality, the water leak caused “proper damage” while thousands were without water. Another affected shop owner tells how the water came from different directions.
– It just rushed in, says Keryakus Sauma to P4 Jönköpingand adds that the water entered his shoe and key shop from three, four different directions.