Drivers have to be rescued from cars, a worker dies in an accident. The sirens are ringing in a town in Thuringia. Storms raged over Germany on Sunday too – and there should be more.
Berlin (dpa) – After storms caused immense damage in many places in Germany at the weekend, the risk of thunderstorms is not averted at the beginning of the week.
“The humid, humid and thundery air mass will keep us in suspense over the next few days,” said the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach. In advance, it is hardly possible to narrow down which places will be specifically affected.
On the weekend, heavy rain led to numerous police and fire services: The small town of Gierstädt near Erfurt in Thuringia was under water on Sunday morning. The police cordoned off the village temporarily. Previously, on Friday evening in the district of Mosbach in the Thuringian community of Wutha-Farnroda, a tidal wave streamed knee-high through the town and flooded houses, gardens and garages.
There were also landslides in Hennef in North Rhine-Westphalia after a storm on Friday evening. A car was washed into a stream, the area of a swimming pool was covered with mud and debris, and a road through the forest was badly washed away. In addition, a twelve-year-old was critically injured in Düsseldorf after lightning struck near her group of cyclists on Friday evening. The girl was believed to be electrocuted and fell onto the street, where she was hit by a car.
In Laatzen near Hanover, the fire brigade took a senior citizen out of a flooded pedestrian underpass on Saturday. In addition to many cellars, two supermarkets were full on Sunday night in Rastede in Lower Saxony. A 65-year-old died in Stuttgart when a scaffold that was washed away on a construction site tore several workers with it on Friday.
In many places, the fire brigade had to move out several times within a short period of time. There were hundreds of missions in East Hesse – 330 in the Fulda district on Saturday. In addition, there were numerous weather-related traffic accidents in many regions of Germany. Most of them went well. Roads that were hollowed out or buried under mud had to be closed locally. Several sailing boats and a catamaran capsized in the storm on Lake Constance on Saturday.
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