Guests in the village are asked not to come to the railway station for the time being. The next information about the traffic routes will be published around 3.00 pm.
Barriers in the village and the instructions of the public services must be respected.
If you have any further questions, please contact our information service.
Further information/updates
22.06.2024, 11.30 a.m.
Zermatt is still cut off via all traffic routes.
Road:
The Täsch - Zermatt road remains closed.
The cantonal road Stalden - St. Niklaus is open to traffic. Other sections remain closed.
Train:
The railroad line between Visp and Zermatt is still interrupted due to storm damage. No replacement transportation is possible.
Village:
The Gornergrat Bahn is suspended due to storm damage.
The next assessment of the situation will take place at approx. 15:00.
Current situation in the village (Zermatt)
22.06.2024, 08:20 a.m.
Roads in town centres:
The roads in town centres are partially closed, please respect the corresponding barriers.
The Täsch - Zermatt road remains closed. Next information will follow at approx. 11.30 am.
The cantonal road Stalden - St. Niklaus will be reopened to traffic from 08.30 am. Other sections will remain closed.
Train:
Interruption between Visp and Zermatt due to danger of flooding. Trains on the R40, RE41 and RE42 lines are canceled. No replacement transportation. Next information will follow at approx. 11.30 am
Current traffic information
21.06.2024, 18:30 hrs
Zermatt is cut off via all traffic routes.
Road:
The Täsch - Zermatt road will remain closed overnight. Next decision on this tomorrow Saturday morning.
The Stalden-St. Niklaus cantonal road will be open and passable for 1.5 hours until 8 pm. It will then be closed again and will remain so until at least Saturday morning. The next decision will be made on Saturday morning at around 8 am.
Train:
Service disruption between Visp and Zermatt due to flood risk. The trains on lines R40, RE41 and RE42 are canceled. No replacement service. .
Water alarm
21.06.2024, 17:10 hrs
A new escalation level has been reached in Zermatt with the water alarm with immediate effect. By order of the authorities, the population must go into closed rooms immediately. The roads must remain clear.
Residents living on the first floor near the stream are asked to move to higher floors immediately.
Please implement this order immediately and move to appropriately safe buildings. This order is valid until further notice.
Shuttle trains run between Zermatt and Täsch from 8.00 pm. Replacement buses run from Täsch to Visp.
Please check your connections in Visp before departure. There is NO accommodation available in Visp.
The road between Täsch and Visp will be open again from 8.00 p.m.
Strong thunderstorm and flooding last night in Misox (GR/TI). 3 people still missing. A part of the A13 Bernardino motorway is destroyed and will likely be closed for months.
The Zermatt Shuttle between Täsch and Zermatt has been running according to schedule again since 19:55. Replacement buses are running between Visp and Täsch until further notice.
The road between Täsch and Zermatt remains closed.
The road Visp-Täsch remains closed to normal traffic. Only the buses.
This is the motorway now. A new and huge alluvial fan is occupying the previous river bed. Water just did what it knows best: erode the softer material which was agricultural field and the motorway. Will show these images to engineers later this week and ask their opinion. AFAIK, quite hard to plan for this.
And this is the small town of Rebolgina. This was not flooding, water alone cannot do this. There were landslides upstream in the basin that had so much inertia, just continued straight on a river bend. In spite of being an aerial photo, the images are quite sensitive, only click if you really want to see. This is not survivable, it is a miracle that rescuers found a woman alive Maps of Switzerland - Swiss Confederation - map.geo.admin.ch
I haven’t washed mine this year. No need with all the rain and the underside got several rinses to get rid of the road salt driving through standing water.
It’s possible my VW that I’ve had since 2008 has been washed, I suppose, but I don’t recall it. Maybe for its first MFK when I still believed that they’d fail it just for being dirty on the outside.
If I don’t the Mrs. will take them through one of those tunnels, and then complain about all the funny hair line scratches. Ten minutes and two jettons gets them sorted at the karcher place.
I have a karcher (two now, new one inherited) and have, on occasion, used it to clean the wheels, usually when doing the bi-annual tyre swap, and I guess it’s been aimed at any obviously very dirty bits on the paintwork, but I don’t cunt that as washing, which in my world would include buckets of soapy water and sponges if you’re doing it at home, or yes, the drive-through carwashes which my wife sometimes uses for her whte Audi TT that shows the dirt and looks good for being clean. If you’re bothered about micro-scratches you’d best not actually use the car at all.
Ha, I do both. 2 jetons for prewash with water jet to remove salt, dust, and other sharp stuff from the paint., Then, a pass by the tunnel. I have not noticed dramatic scratches so far. Anyway, damage from small rocks is way worse than any scratch and there’s plenty of places where there’s a hole in the paint. All left to do is to use one of those paint repair kits to not let the hole in the paint grow.
Back to topic, Morges underwater yesterday, Schaffhausen underwater this morning…a funny summer!
