The hurricane Sabine currently keeps Germany in suspense. And it leaves clear traces: fallen trees led to injuries, property damage and train cancellations.
- Storm low Sabine has been raging over Germany since Monday night.
- Injuries, damage to property and traffic problems are the consequences.
- You can read all the latest news about the storm in our news ticker.
Berlin - Injured and property damage due to fallen trees , train and flight operations were temporarily shut down and countless households were temporarily without electricity on Monday: The consequences of the hurricane Sabine are serious. But at least personal injuries have so far been limited. Nevertheless, several people were injured by the storm in Germany. People in North Rhine-Westphalia were particularly often hit by falling trees or flying objects.
Sturm Sabine: Two women injured in Saarbrücken and one youth in Paderborn
But two women were also seriously injured in Saarbrücken when a tree fell on them in the parking lot of the clinic, as a police spokesman said on Monday night. In Paderborn, police say a 16-year-old boy was badly injured in the head when he was hit by a tree branch in a wooded area. The boy was hospitalized, a Paderborn police spokesman said.
In Frankfurt am Main, the boom of a construction crane buckled in the heavy storm and damaged the roof of the Frankfurt Cathedral. According to a fire department spokesman, the extent of the damage was initially unclear. Nobody was injured. There was no danger to passers-by from the overturned crane boom.
Sturm Sabine: Deutsche Bahn stopped long-distance transport nationwide until 10 a.m.
Hardly anything went on the rails in Germany at the start of the working week: long-distance traffic was completely at a standstill until 10 a.m. *, Deutsche Bahn expected the malfunctions all Monday . Regional rail traffic was also widespread in many federal states. For example, all Munich S-Bahn trains were temporarily shut down *. "Depending on the location of the hurricane, traffic will resume in the morning," it said in Bavaria . But the Free State and its neighbor Baden-Württemberg were particularly hard hit: While long-distance traffic was slowly resumed in large parts of Germany around Monday noon, the two federal states in southern Germany were the exception.
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Due to the #Sabine storm, there will be impairments and cancellations in long-distance transport in #Bavaria and # BadenWürttemberg until further notice. Please inform yourself regularly on # bahn.de or in the #DB #Navigator about the current situation.
The reason: it was still particularly stormy during the day. The German Weather Service issued a new warning for Bavaria in the course of Monday *.
After the storm night, the train dispatched deployment teams with clearing equipment and chainsaws to the routes. "We expect the first routes to be navigable again in the course of the morning," said a spokeswoman for North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sturm Sabine: Flights were canceled - and also the lessons at all Bavarian schools
Hundreds of takeoffs and landings were canceled at the airports, and Munich Airport was particularly affected. In the morning, the airline Eurowings announced that it would gradually resume operations from 10 a.m. Find out what passengers and rail customers can do to ensure that their tickets do not expire * at Merkur.de *. Rebookings, cancellations and refunds are possible, but there are a few things to consider. And not only trains and flights were canceled, but also classes in many places. In Bavaria, schools remained closed across the board * and daycare centers and universities were also affected by the storm.
In Bavaria, tens of thousands of people were without electricity for hours after branches fell on cables. Power failures occurred in some places across Europe on Monday. The hurricane deep swept across large parts of Germany at night and caused severe traffic disruptions. Various streets had to be closed. The A45 motorway was completely blocked in North Rhine-Westphalia between the Hagen and Hagen-Süd intersections due to fallen trees, as the State Road Works Authority announced.
By the way: Weather expert Jörg Kachelmann got extremely angry on Monday * when it came to storm depression Sabine. Read exactly what makes him so angry at Merkur.de *.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network.
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