Clean-up, outages continue after Friday storms, more violent weather expected

Clean-up work was being carried out over the weekend following severe lightening and hail storms in the Czech Republic on Friday. Trees were knocked down, train transport was interrupted in some parts of the country as Czech Railways closed 17 lines, and scores of households in the east of the country remain without electricity as of Sunday. Czech fire brigades were called out 400 times between midnight Friday and noon Saturday to deal with problems caused by heavy rain and strong winds. The Czech Press Agency has reported that similar storms are expected for Tuesday.