Storms Batter Europe Hitting Power Supplies, Flights and Phones
Enedis said nearly 300,000 French homes lost electricity as strong winds and rain also forced hundreds of flight and rail disruptions across the region.
- Over the weekend, Storm Austen and Storm Boelo caused widespread power outages and travel disruptions across Europe, affecting more than 400,000 homes in Britain and nearly 60,000 in France.
- A low-pressure front brought 111 mph winds and heavy rain across Europe overnight, with fallen trees and debris littering roads and blocking rail lines in exposed areas.
- French utility Enedis deployed 2,600 technicians to restore electricity, while part of the pier at Brighton, England, blew away in Storm Austen on Friday.
- Hundreds of flights were cancelled or diverted across northern Europe, with AFP counting 90 cancellations at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Sunday alone.
- Falling trees injured four people in Brussels on Saturday, while German police reported two people seriously hurt in Nastatten as the DWD weather agency warned of more powerful winds.
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The Austen and Boelo storms ravaged in northern Europe on the weekend, leaving more than 150,000 homes without electricity and affecting road and air transport, and in some areas they...
One person was killed and others injured in violent storm-related incidents, which over the past two days struck several countries in northern Europe.
Storms Boelo and Osten battered northern Europe in the past 24 hours, leaving one dead in Scotland. More than 150,000 households in England, France, and Germany experienced power outages, impacting flights and telephone networks. Flood warnings were issued in several areas.
Two storms in northern Europe caused electricity out of more than 150,000 homes, disrupting flights, railways and ferryes, amid warnings of high winds and waves.
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