On Friday evening, an extreme hailstorm hit the large city of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg in full force. The hail was washed up in the streets metres high in places. Cars were stuck in the masses of hail. People struggled through the winter landscape. Streets and subways, underground garages and shopping centres were buried by the hail masses or flooded by heavy rain. As a result, traffic in the greater Reutlingen area collapsed.