"Get the food warm, I'll be right home": storm drama about taxi drivers now public

Created: 02/21/2022 13:13

By: Franziska Schwarz

The storm "Zeynep" also cost the life of a taxi driver (symbol image) in Germany.

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The man still brought customers to their destination who could not take the train because of the hurricane.

The dismay at his death is great.

Münster – “Zeynep” has claimed at least 16 lives in Europe, including several from Germany.

Trees posed a great danger. The storm "Ylenia" already buckled them - which was the fatality of motorists, for example in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony-Anhalt.

One of the victims of "Zeynep" died while working.

A 56-year-old taxi driver in Münster brought eight customers to their destination on Friday afternoon, who switched to the taxi because of the storm train failures.

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On the way back from Emden (Lower Saxony) to Münster, a tree about 15 meters high that had been toppled by the wind crashed into his vehicle.

He died on the spot as a result of the accident.

The accident happened on Friday evening on the B54 near Altenberg (NRW).

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the 56-year-old's employer as saying.

According to the report, all taxis at Münster station wore mourning flags on Saturday.

The accident came completely unexpectedly for everyone involved.

The 56-year-old reported to his wife shortly before his death.

A friend told the portal when asked: "He called her and said: 'Get the food warm, I'll be right home.'"

Storm series in Germany: Danger from falling construction cranes and facades

As recently as Saturday, more than a million households in the EU were without electricity due to the storm.

Hundreds of flights, trains and ferry connections were canceled due to the storm with its hurricane-like gusts in some areas.

For the first time since 2013, Hamburg experienced a very severe storm surge with more than 3.5 meters above the mean high water level during the "Zeynep" passage.

In Bremen, a 55-meter-tall construction crane crashed into an office building that was still under construction, in Hamburg, parts of the facade of a four-storey residential building collapsed.

In Bad Zwischenahn (Lower Saxony), a spruce tree around nine meters high fell on a clinic building, nobody was injured.

The North Sea islands of Wangerooge and Langeoog lost significant parts of their bathing beach.

Even if the weather in Germany is currently devastating: it should finally calm down on Tuesday.