Heavy rain on Saturday night flooded numerous streets and districts in eastern Bavaria and Austria. Considerable property damage was caused in the neighboring Austrian state of Vorarlberg in particular. There, basements and garages were full of water, underpasses were flooded, as the police and fire department announced on Saturday. There were also some landslides. The situation calmed down after midnight. So nobody was injured. A section of the Rheintal autobahn had to be temporarily closed. The railway line from Dornbirn in the direction of Bregenz was also not passable at times.
In Bavaria, the fire brigades were mainly busy pumping out flooded cellars. They were called to several hundred missions. There was a landslide near Markt Oberstdorf in the Oberallgäu district on Saturday night, but nobody was injured.
According to the Günzburg motorway police, aquaplaning and a number of accidents occurred on the A7, A8 and B28 motorways at the level of Sending, Neu-Ulm, Burgau, Leipheim and Günzburg on all lanes. Four injured, including a mother and her one-year-old son, had to be taken to the hospital. Smaller accidents due to aquaplaning on federal roads were also reported from Lower Bavaria. The traffic police in Ingolstadt registered six aquaplaning accidents on the A9 in the direction of Munich on Friday. One person was slightly injured.
The constant rain also caused the water level in many rivers to rise. The southern tributaries to the upper Danube, the Altmühl, on the upper reaches of the Iller and Lech, the Bavarian Lake Constance tributaries and the Inn area are particularly affected, as the Bavarian flood news service reported on Saturday.
Streams and rivers, which had had very low water levels for weeks due to the drought, quickly turned into torrential rivers on Friday afternoon. In the village of Wolfurt, streams that burst their banks flooded the town center. According to this information, the water at Lake Constance rose by 21 centimeters from Friday morning to Saturday morning.
The German Weather Service has now lifted its severe weather warning for Bavaria. Only a few places, especially in the south-east of the country between Lake Chiemsee, Waging am See and Berchtesgaden, are affected by heavy rainfall, a meteorologist said in Munich on Saturday. It could rain heavily here until Sunday. Floods on small rivers are conceivable, but rather unlikely on larger streams such as the Inn or Danube. Due to the very dynamic weather development, however, floods are difficult to predict.