Heavy thunderstorm moves over Upper Bavaria: underpasses fill up - sandbags can be filled

Created: 08/21/2022, 05:01

By: Boris Forstner

A strong thunderstorm partially paralyzed traffic in Weilheim on Thursday around 6 p.m.

There is also a severe weather warning for the region for Friday.

Update from August 19, 1 p.m.:

The storm warning with the risk of flooding in the Weilheim-Schongau district also occupies the Peißenberg market.

Mayor Frank Zellner therefore now points out that the facility for

is available for citizens of the market community.

Sand, bags and shovels are provided on site.

"Precautions to secure the water drainage on the streets of the particularly neuralgic places in the village have been taken by the municipal building yard," says Zellner.

The situation is constantly being monitored and evaluated.

Current warnings are also available via the swarn-peissenberg.de system.

After heavy rain, numerous streets in Weilheim were flooded.

© EMANUEL GRONAU

Update from Friday, August 19, 9:11 a.m .:

The short but heavy rain shower that poured over Weilheim on Thursday evening was tough.

This is also shown by a Facebook post by the Weilheim volunteer fire brigade, published around 9 p.m. the day before.

"We've been out and about in the city area since around 6:25 p.m.

Overflowing cellars, flooded streets….

We are currently still working on two larger buildings on Pütrichstrasse and in Paradeis with several submersible pumps and water suction devices.

Land under prevailed on Thursday after heavy rain in Weilheim.

© EMANUEL GRONAU

Heavy rain in Weilheim: fire brigade in continuous use - flooded basements, flooded streets

The images released by the fire brigade illustrate the extent of the violent thunderstorm: there you can see how the large parking lot around a shop is almost completely under water.

Streets and basements were also flooded.

The storm in Weilheim partially paralyzed traffic early Thursday evening.

Reason were overflowing underpasses

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Original notification from August 18, 2022:

Weilheim

– Within 20 minutes, so much rain came down that numerous underpasses, such as here on Schützenstrasse, were full – drivers had to think carefully about whether they still wanted to drive through there.

Some risked it, some turned around - and then stood in front of the next full street.

Heavy storm in Weilheim – DWD also warns of extreme continuous rain on Friday

Drivers had to watch out for huge puddles everywhere.

The integrated control center spoke of “five to six operations”, only Weilheim was affected – it could be a foretaste of Friday, when the German Weather Service warned of “extremely heavy continuous rain” in the entire district from 6 a.m. all day long.

As here on Weilheim's Schützenstraße, the water was in the underpasses.

© Forstner

You can find more current news from the Weilheim-Schongau district at Merkur.de/Weilheim.

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