Berlin: The storm caused heavy flooding in all parts of Western and Central Europe overnight, and a man swept the current raging in East Germany remained lost Wednesday.
Firefighters continued their search for men in the city of Saxony State Joehstadt on Wednesday morning.
The DPA German news agency reported that he had tried to secure his property from the water that rose when he disappeared.
Firefighters in the city of Hagen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, saved some drivers whose vehicles were trapped in the flood underpass.
Videos on social media show roads in the West Germany city filled with knee water and others are buried by landslides.
A falling tree caught by a woman in Germany Mettmann, and the respondent had to hold his head to make him sink in drowning flood water until firefighters could release him.
Residents in the nearest Erkrat are warned not to bathe or use their washing machines because the rain has weighed on the local waste system.
Hof County in Bavaria issued a disaster warning at the end of Tuesday because the basement was filled with water, fallen trees and several areas lost overnight strength.
The German DWD weather service said the area saw 80 liters (more than 21 gallons) rain per square meter within 12 hours.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert described the images from the regions that were hit by floods as “terrible.” “Although not every event, not every flood or local incident, related to climate change, many scientists tell us that the frequency, intensity and regularity that occurs is the consequences of climate change,” Seibert said.
DWD Meteorology estimates further “extreme storms” in the west and Central Germany until Thursday, with a peak of rainfall that may reach 200 liters per square meter.
In the neighboring Czech Republic, firefighters received 800 calls about the incident starting from fallen trees to the flood basement.
A highway that connects the capital, Prague, to the east of a partially flooded overnight.
Thousands of households remain without electricity Wednesday.
Mud is flooded with houses in several cities in East Belgium when the rain sustainable hit Ardennes Hills hard.
Spa tourist center, close to the famous Formula One track, can not handle water flowing from the surrounding hills to the streets to the river.
Cars piled up on top of each other and the basement flooded, but there was no serious injury reported.
The Belgian Meteorology Institute issued Red Waspada Wednesday for the zone around Liege, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the east of Brussels, which is estimated to get more rainy a day than regions that usually receive in one summer month.
Rain is expected to last until Friday.
The authorities in the Netherlands warned that heavy rainfall in the southern province of Limburg could change the flow into a torrent that flowed generous and urged the public to stay away from them.
The ship owner is advised to avoid the Maas river because strong flows and debris are being washed downstream.
Dutch media showed people who were saved on Tuesday from the historic factory in the Netherlands which partly sank under flood water is estimated at 1.5 meters (5 feet).
The swelling river is expected to overflow to the plains of their floods at the end of the week, which is unusual in the summer.
It happens more often in the spring when the rivers like Rhine and Maas rose due to snow melting on the hill of Europe and the mountains.
In Switzerland, the authorities raise flood warnings for Lake Lucerne to the highest level and prohibit all shipments.
France National Weather Service issued a commemoration Wednesday for five regions in the northeast of the country.
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Most of the France has seen a very cold and wet summer so far.
Meanwhile, parts of Southeast Europe have experienced heat waves.
Temperature in Albania and neighboring Kosovo reached 35-37 degrees Celsius (95-99 F) on Wednesday.
No deaths reported from the heat wave so far.
The authorities are very urgent in the public, especially children and older adults, to stay at home during the day.
Floods influence European parts after heavy rain
