Overview
- A severe storm early Sunday caused widespread outages after a metal roof was blown into a transformer in Littenweiler and fallen trees damaged overhead lines, triggering short circuits.
- The local energy supplier, Badenova, began stepwise restorations after first disruptions around 3:30 a.m. and reported that power to all households, including Oberried, was reestablished by mid‑morning.
- Police estimated roughly 25,000 people were affected at the peak of the outage while other reports put the total at about 10,000 households without electricity for several hours.
- The University Medical Center Freiburg limited its emergency intake to life‑threatening cases during the outage, then had power restored after about two hours and is gradually resuming regular operations.
- Authorities say the full extent of damage is still being assessed and the German Weather Service continues to warn of strong winds and heavy rain in parts of the Black Forest, so crews remain on alert for new disruptions.