© Matija Habljak/PIXSELLA car underwater in Miramarska street in Zagreb
Torrential heavy rain, as well as strong winds, lightning and thunder started at around 9 p.m. and left a good part of the city flooded.
The Zagreb Emergency Management Office reported that the Fire Brigade had already carried out over 80 interventions by midnight and had received over 1,000 emergency calls from the public.
One of the worst areas flooded was the underpass on Miramarska street with three cars stranded underwater.
A number of voluntary fire brigades, on-duty teams of the Office for Emergency Management, on-duty communal services and the Zagreb Police Department were also attending to call-outs.
Most interventions are technical interventions to pump water out of roads and from basements and authorities asked citizens to be patient as they could not cope with the volume of work.
Portal Zagrebancija.com posted a video on their Facebook page of the floods on Miramarska street.
Traffic has come to a halt on the main Ilica street, whilst British Square was completely underwater. Trams had also stopped running around parts of the city.
Below is another video from Zagrebancija.com from British Square in downtown Zagreb.
Earlier in the day, the storm hit parts of Istria, Kvarner and the northern coast with the worst of the flooding hitting the town of Senj.
Torrential rain is expected to continue through the night and during Saturday morning before it clears and gives way to sunshine.
The fire brigade posted just a handful of the thousand calls it received.
Reader Comments
In my case Im blessed. Eventho I live in a basement flat my situation is safe and dry (dry as possible that is). Theres 85% humidity in air in meh flat... me and my cat overlord feel kinda soggy
Also to mention that recently Belgrade had the problem of few floods too. And it was said that it could also be intentional. Building sites in the center of town were purposefuly neglected ... and the money for new and better infrastructure stolen.
Good A!!
Checking with a rain monitoring service we have, on 4/29/2014 Milton got, in one day, 18.91" (480 mm) of rain.
On 6/9/2012, Pensacola got 21.7" / 551.8mm.
Wet.
Then again, there's always wetter:
The biggest rainfall in a day occurred with the passage of Cyclone Denise in Foc-Foc, La Réunion, an island in the southern Indian Ocean. Some 1.825 meters (71.8 inches) of rain fell over 24 hours, from January 7 to 8, 1966.
The official site says we had 14.2 mm of rain in last 24h in the center of town. And on the outskirts just 4mm ... My Mom lives in western suburbs and her neigborhood didnt have rain at all... just very strong winds.