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Flooded street in the Bavarian town of Penzberg
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A man died
during heavy rain in
Weißwasser,
Saxony
.
As the police announced on Monday, the 67-year-old wanted to use a submersible pump to pump the water out of the full basement of his garden house on Sunday evening and suffered an electric shock.
The fire brigade could only rescue him dead.
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the area of
northern Upper Lusatia was
affected by storms with heavy rain.
About 40 liters per square meter went down in white water.
Streets were flooded.
According to the rescue control center, the fire brigade was busy pumping water from flooded cellars, underground garages and elevator shafts on more than 80 missions until after midnight.
Bavaria and Berlin also affected
In many other parts of Germany, violent storms fell on Sunday.
In Schlehdorf in the
Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
, around 43 liters per square meter fell at 6 p.m., according to the DWD.
The rain was also heavy in Irschenberg in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach.
A man was found dead in a wooded area
near
Eglfing in the Weilheim-Schongau district
.
He was there alone on Sunday evening, the police said, without giving any further details.
It is still unclear whether the death was related to the storm that hit the region at the time.
The criminal police are investigating the case.
For
Berlin
, a DWD spokeswoman reported in the evening of up to 50 liters of precipitation per hour on one square meter at around 7 p.m. in Buch and 40 liters in Marzahn.
It had rained heavily, especially in the north-east of the capital, said a Berlin police spokesman, speaking of fallen trees and full tunnels.
The Berlin fire brigade announced on Twitter that it was in a state of emergency.
Operations would be processed with priority, there could be waiting times on the emergency number 112.
In total, there were around 250 weather-related firefighting operations on Sunday evening, as a spokesman said.
The main triggers were therefore flooded cellars and flooded streets.
At Berlin Airport (BER) in Schönefeld, Brandenburg, there were numerous delays in the evening, and the departures were jammed.
The German Weather Service had also warned many districts of Brandenburg. Occasionally trees could be uprooted and roofs damaged, cellars and streets could be flooded as well as brooks and rivers overflowing their banks. In Graustein in the town of Spremberg in the
Brandenburg district of Spree-Neisse
, according to the DWD, around 4 p.m. in the afternoon around 35 liters of rain fell on the square meter.
Heavy rain and strong gusts of wind
uprooted several trees
in Schwarz in
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
. These fell on Sunday evening near the L25, the police said. Several roads have been temporarily closed. A tree broke through the upper floor of a house. Several roofs were also damaged. According to official information, no one was injured.
The fire brigade in
the Segeberg district
in Schleswig-Holstein had to move out
150 times
on Sunday evening because of the heavy rain.
Kaltenkirchen was particularly affected, there were 80 missions there alone, as the responsible regional control center announced.
"It started around 5:30 pm and then really every minute," said a spokesman for the control center.
Mainly cellars or garages were flooded or streets were flooded.
According to the police and the rescue control center, there were no injuries.
In Struvenhütten there was a massive water ingress in a larger building complex, where the technical relief organization (THW) came with a high-performance pump.
In Oersdorf, the Kattenbek river overflowed its banks and several properties were flooded.
wit / dpa
