In Germany, an incredible Chaos! Severe storms, rainfall and floods.
Heavy rain has caused chaos in some parts of Germany
and neighboring Switzerland and storms are not forecast to
let up soon. At least one person is missing, presumed dead,
after being swept away in a flood. Heavy rainfall fell across
parts of Germany continued into Wednesday, causing flooding
and damage to buildings and other property. The states
of Saxony, Thuringia, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and
the southern state of Bavaria were hardest hit by the extreme weather.
In the town of Johstadt, in Saxony, emergency services
were searching for a man who was swept away in a flash flood.
In the Bavarian city of Hof, around 1,000 firefighters and
140 rescue workers were deployed to incidents caused
by flooding. Regional authorities declared a disaster situation
to better coordinate the relief operations. The measure
was lifted again on Wednesday morning. While the extreme weather
has eased off, some schools and day care centers remained closed
in the area. In Dusseldorf, the capital of Germany's most
populous state of NRW, firefighters were called out around
330 times by Wednesday morning to attend to flooding incidents,
including in basements and underground garages. In the city
of Hagen, also in NRW, over 100 liters of rain per square meter
fell in the past 12 hours. A retirement home was evacuated
due to inflowing water. One person who was buried was injured
and several drivers were rescued from their cars.
The rainfall has swelled the river Rhine, which flows through
NRW, triggering restrictions to shipping in some areas.
In the southern state of Baden-Wurttemberg, an 81-year-old
man is reported to have fallen into the flooded Jagst River,
which is in flood after heavy rainfall, on Monday night.
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