The fire brigade is currently still in use, but had to move out since 7.30 am, to pump flooded basements will be empty. "Due to the rainfall, it came everywhere in the city to each of the water damage," said the fire brigade on their Facebook page.
The two most affected parts of the city were Heidkamp and Gronau on the border of Cologne. In many places, nothing more, as in went for drivers to underpasses such as the Refrather Weg in the amount of the tax or on the Mülheimer Straße. There gullies over were running, cars were up to the radiator in the rapidly-formed small lakes. A small lake was formed in the garden of a house in the street At Rodenbach.
Thunderstorm: the basement ran, weather service warns moreBoth the main official were the guards currently in use, with the addition of volunteers from the fire company for the town center. And the fire Department indicates that currently that motorists should drive carefully, because there is still water pooling on the road would be located.
The spook with thunderstorms is not over but still: The entire course of the day, the German weather service for Bergisch Gladbach and the Region is a part of powerful thunderstorms warns. It is especially dangerous when The speed of the train, the Thunderstorm is very slow and hardly any Wind. As a result, the hazard due to heavy rain from 10 to 25 liters per hour on square meter was particularly acute.
Occasionally, the could be more. In the course of the late in the Evening, the weather should continue-on the antics then. A tentative balance sheet of the storm to give it to then in the course of Wednesday afternoon. It is a huge property and is likely to be the result of damage.
*The contribution of "Bergisch lake Gladbach: in the garden: Storm use triggers big! Spooky is still not over," published by the Cologne Express. Contact with the executives here.
Cologne Express Date Of Update: 12 August 2020, 05:26
