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‘The Forest Had Gone’: The Storm That Moved a Mountain

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Every year, high in the Swiss Alps, soccer teams gather for a tournament on a picturesque pitch: Campo Draione sits on a ledge over a mountain stream and is surrounded by forest. In 2024, the celebratory event turned into a disaster scene when a catastrophic series of thunderstorms dropped nearly 8 billion gallons of water in just a few hours. Jonah Goodman has the harrowing story, which The Guardian translated from the original German version, …
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Longreads broke the news in on Monday, August 11, 2025.
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