It was at 15 o’clock on July 10 that a severe rainfall withdrew over the Jönköping area. The largest rainfall fell in a line over the western parts of Jönköping, Jönköping Center, Bankeryd’s urban area and Habo urban area. In Bankeryd, 67 millimeters of rain were measured in two hours.
Many alarms to SOS
The rainfall led to extensive floods in parts of Jönköping and Habo, among other things, the E4 had to be closed at the height of Österängen for about two hours. In total, the rescue service in the county received around 280 alarms, 120 of these in Jönköping municipality.
The insurance companies have received over 1,200 notifications after the incident, about 800 is about housing. The total injury cost of the rainfall is estimated at approximately SEK 200 million in Habo and Jönköping.
Social functions worked
But despite the extent, the impact on important social functions such as healthcare, municipal activities, the environment and cultural environment was according to the report.
– A contributing reason for this is that there were established routines in place at both municipalities and the Swedish Transport Administration. Major financial damage has occurred, but society at large rolled on, says Anne-Catrin Almér, one of the report authors in a press release.
Both the municipalities Habo and Jönköping believe that they handled the incident in a good way and that they could do it again.