Mendig (dpa) – At the opening of the music festival “Rock am Ring” have been injured in a lightning strike at least eight visits. “A fan had to be resuscitated,” informed the organizers of Mendig in Rheinland-Pfalz. This was provisionally successful, according to the German Red Cross.
A thunderstorm had pushed directly through the festival. The live performances were interrupted about half hours. Around 90,000 fans first had to endure the beginning of the three-day music spectacle at the airfield Mendig. Heavy rain destroyed numerous tents. A police helicopter circled over the completely muddy meadows.
A spokeswoman for the organizers dismissed speculation back that the three-day festival for possible further storms could be canceled entirely this Saturday and Sunday. Last year, the weather had also badly played – by lightning 33 people were at “Rock am Ring” injured.
Heavy rain resulted in some regions – especially in southern Germany – on Friday again to flooded roads and basements full way past. In Bavaria, Weilheim-Schongau was particularly affected. From Baden-Württemberg floods were reported from several districts.
The German Weather Service (DWD) had warned on Friday night before some heavy showers and thunderstorms in the far south and west of Germany. “Due to the slow shift to be expected from heavy rain partly more than 25 liters per square meter in a short time,” it said. In the West, hail risk is increased.
Also, the parallel to “Rock am Ring” held festival “Rock im Park” in Nuremberg (Bavaria) had begun in the sky is overcast and a light rain on Friday. In rubber boots and shorts festival goers danced in puddles.
“Rock am Ring” and “Rock im Park” will present more than 80 bands with a broad mix of styles on multiple stages. Highlights include US rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers and the heavy metal legend Black Sabbath.
In the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau fell according to the DWD in Munich within two hours more than 50 liters of rain per square meter. In the neighboring communities Peißenberg and Hohenpeißenberg several streets were flooded so strong that they had to be completely blocked, police said.
In the town arcades in Unterallgäu occurred after heavy rain to a landslide. Like the police, a car was pushed against a house. “In the further course, a small mudslide by the estate, which is no longer habitable currently spilled.”
Even in England there was another storm. In Hamm on the edge of the Ruhr firefighters went after the passage of heavy rain and strong gusts of wind in the late afternoon 50 missions, a spokesman said. Trees were toppled and fell on roofs, roof tiles were torn. The fire department had to secure scaffolding. In addition, the festival “Summer Hammer” was canceled. From injured was not known here.
meteorologists were surprised by the violence of the storms in Germany. The extent and duration were “absolutely extraordinary,” wrote experts from the German Weather Service (DWD) in an interim report. Since Corpus Christi on May 26, controlling the weather situation “Deep Central Europe” the weather in Germany. Such conditions also have the flood of the century in 2013 in southern Germany and triggered at the same of 2002.
In the particularly hard hit by storms areas in Lower Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg the cleanup went on Friday, meanwhile, continue. In Lower Bavaria, the death toll rose after Flutkatstrophe Wednesday to seven.
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