5 minutes ago! Greece closes all stations! Hailstorm the size of a stone fell on the capital!

In Athens, flooding temporarily closed Piraeus Street in both directions before police ordered it to reopen. A rare hurricane-like storm has hit western Greece with hail, disrupting travel and causing flooding and power outages on several Ionian islands. The storm was expected to head south after making landfall in the Peloponnese and hit the Athens area overnight Brief but intense thunderstorms overnight into the early hours of flooded major streets in and around Athens and uprooted trees in northern Greece. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but in northern Greece and nearby villages, flooding in the basements of houses led to additional firefighters from the regions being called in to help. As night, that included a total of 50 firefighters with 20 trucks. Forty-five homes, basements, and commercial spaces were pumped out after more than three inches of rain fell in nearly an hour. There were reports of flooded agricultural fields, irrigation canals and overflowing
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