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Storm in Oberstdorf: residents look at the damage
Photo: Before Knappmeyer / dpa
Storms with thunderstorms, heavy rain and hail have swept across the Bavarian Alps and the Rhineland.
In
Kempten
, a lightning strike shut down the railway signal box, and trains had to stop at times on the route to Kaufering.
In
Oberstdorf
there were landslides, several roads were blocked by debris and water, and the cellars and stables were full of water.
In
the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen
, the fire brigade had to go out on 47 missions on Thursday evening.
A spokesman for the Oberland integrated control center said that hail had destroyed skylights and that water had entered Aldi in Oberau.
The federal highway 2 was briefly impassable in Oberau.
Cellars were flooded.
There
were two storm operations in
the Bad Tölz district .
Storm in the Rhineland
A storm front caused damage in the
Rhineland
.
Duisburg
was particularly
affected.
The phones in the Baerl district failed, reports the fire brigade, which had to process 500 emergency calls in a short time.
In operations without danger to people, it could take a while for the fire brigade to arrive, they say.
In neighboring
Mülheim an der Ruhr
, an approximately 20 meter high oak tree was probably split by a lightning strike.
Half of a tree fell on a two-storey house and damaged the roof.
A car was buried by the tree.
People were not harmed.
In
Krefeld
, streets and basements were flooded, trees fell down - including on the train route between Krefeld and Meerbusch, which was temporarily blocked as a result.
In
Cologne
, the fire brigade reported 32 missions via Twitter.
Trees had fallen there too.
The German Weather Service had warned of extreme thunderstorms for the Alps and the Rhineland.
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