Swiss inspect the damage after sudden storms flood roads, halt air traffic in Geneva

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Clean-up crews and business owners are inspecting the damage after sudden storms lashed southwestern Switzerland, sending torrents of water through roads and temporarily halting air traffic at Geneva’s airport. In the lakeside town of Morges, a creek overflowed, inundating downtown streets with tan-colored floodwater.

GENEVA — Clean-up crews and business owners were inspecting the damage Wednesday after sudden storms lashed southwestern Switzerland the previous night, sending torrents of water through roads and temporarily halting air traffic at Geneva’s airport.

The town said no one was injured but that water flows hit 43 cubic meters per second, well above the 100-year record of 34 cubic meters per second.

 

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