Heavy rainfall in Bavaria on Thursday caused widespread disruption for residents of Nuremberg in southern Germany.
Floods, overloaded emergency lines, cut roads and several neighborhoods without electricity… Heavy rains caused panic on Thursday evening in Nuremberg, in the south of Germany, report local authorities and several media based in Berlin. .
The rain seems to have taken many residents by surprise, with some having to abandon their cars to seek shelter, Bild media reports.
Hundreds of interventions
On X (ex-Twitter), the firefighters of the city of Nuremberg called on the population to stay at home and to call the European emergency number (112) “only in the event of an absolute emergency”, ensuring that the lines were overloaded.
Shortly after 8:00 p.m., the German firefighters had already listed 500 “intervention locations” on which their presence was required, evoking “heavy showers and thunderstorms”.
N-Energie, in charge of the electricity network in Nuremberg, https://twitter.com/nergie_de/status/1692226587649847483 that cuts had been recorded in several districts of the city. On social networks, several witnesses shared images of flooded roads and cars blocked by water.
Rain dominates the German sky
A little further south of Nuremberg, the rail network was diverted due to bad weather, Deutsche Bahn said on its website. Trains no longer stop at Ulm and Günzburg stations.
Because if a heat dome has settled in the French sky, it is the rain that seems to have settled in Germany. Already on Wednesday, in the west of the country, the elements were unleashed.
In Gelsenkirchen, a city in the Ruhr, the water had risen up to one meter in some streets. Severe thunderstorms also caused major disruptions in air traffic in Frankfurt.
