Melodi
Disaster Cat
This is really similar to the storm that hit almost as soon as I put my bag into the cabin at our campground in Germany - that one killed 8 people, shut down transport in a similar way and downed trees all over North Germany. We didn't get even a hint of this storm here in Ireland, it sounds like it was another quick monster knocking out power to 200,000 people!
At least four dead as storm winds hit central Europe
Updated / Sunday, 29 Oct 2017 12:25
Emergency workers stand in front of scaffolding collapsed due to heavy winds in Berlin
At least four people have died as strong winds hit across central Europe, killing two people in Poland and two in the Czech Republic, officials have said.
All four people were killed by falling trees.
The storm also knocked out power to thousands of Czechs and Poles.
The winds felled trees in the Czech Republic, with one elderly man dying after being hit in the town of Jicin northeast of Prague, and one woman killed by a tree in a wooded area.
The weather delayed or halted traffic on several railway corridors and slowed road traffic, with a fallen tree blocking one highway just outside of Prague.
Rivers in the north reached the highest flood-alert levels.
Winds reached more than 100km/h in several parts of the country, and topped out at 180km on Snezka, at 1,602m the country's highest mountain, Czech Television reported.
The winds also hit Poland, damaging a pipeline at the country's liquefied natural gas terminal in the port of Swinoujscie.
They caused a small leak but no greater damage, according to a spokesman for the state gas pipeline operator, Gaz-System.
A driver died in his car after crashing into a branch that had fallen on the road near the northwestern city of Szczecin, firefighters said.
"At present, hundreds of thousands of households are left without power," Sona Holingerova Hendrychova, spokeswoman for the state-run power producer CEZ, said in a statement.
About 200,000 people were also grappling with power outages in the west.
In Austria, the organisers cancelled the men's World Cup season-opening giant slalom at Solden scheduled for today.
In Germany, the storms caused flooding in Hamburg, where waters rose up around the city's fishmarket.
Railway operator Deutsche Bahn closed many routes in northern and central Germany, cutting rail access to cities such as Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/1029/916075-storms-europe/
At least four dead as storm winds hit central Europe
Updated / Sunday, 29 Oct 2017 12:25
Emergency workers stand in front of scaffolding collapsed due to heavy winds in Berlin
At least four people have died as strong winds hit across central Europe, killing two people in Poland and two in the Czech Republic, officials have said.
All four people were killed by falling trees.
The storm also knocked out power to thousands of Czechs and Poles.
The winds felled trees in the Czech Republic, with one elderly man dying after being hit in the town of Jicin northeast of Prague, and one woman killed by a tree in a wooded area.
The weather delayed or halted traffic on several railway corridors and slowed road traffic, with a fallen tree blocking one highway just outside of Prague.
Rivers in the north reached the highest flood-alert levels.
Winds reached more than 100km/h in several parts of the country, and topped out at 180km on Snezka, at 1,602m the country's highest mountain, Czech Television reported.
The winds also hit Poland, damaging a pipeline at the country's liquefied natural gas terminal in the port of Swinoujscie.
They caused a small leak but no greater damage, according to a spokesman for the state gas pipeline operator, Gaz-System.
A driver died in his car after crashing into a branch that had fallen on the road near the northwestern city of Szczecin, firefighters said.
"At present, hundreds of thousands of households are left without power," Sona Holingerova Hendrychova, spokeswoman for the state-run power producer CEZ, said in a statement.
About 200,000 people were also grappling with power outages in the west.
In Austria, the organisers cancelled the men's World Cup season-opening giant slalom at Solden scheduled for today.
In Germany, the storms caused flooding in Hamburg, where waters rose up around the city's fishmarket.
Railway operator Deutsche Bahn closed many routes in northern and central Germany, cutting rail access to cities such as Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/1029/916075-storms-europe/
