Storm Ciara or as you may want to call it Sabine in Germany has caused enough chaos across entire Europe. Moreover, the storm resulted in cancellation of flights, flooded streets, power outages, traffic snarls as well as falling of trees.
The storm caused damage in parts of Britain, Germany, Belgium, Poland as well as France and even resulted in the deaths of five people. Winds due to the storm were very strong, which did cause a lot of trees being uprooted.
Ireland was the first nation to see the effect of the storm on Saturday, after which Britain and other parts of Northwest Europe saw the impact. Now, the storm has moved towards the Scandinavian nations of Sweden as well as Norway. Weather warning remained severe for Britain and wind, snow and ice is likely today and tomorrow as well.
As far as cause of deaths of the five people is concerned, two men, one in Slovenia and the other near Winchester had trees falling on their cars. Meanwhile, Poland saw the deaths of a mother and daughter duo after a ski rental equipment building saw the roof blowing off. In southern parts of Sweden, after a boat capsized, a man drowned.
Gatwick Airport saw several cancellations as the winds were very high. In fact, the jet stream even caused a flight from New York to London reach in less than five hours, which is in itself a record. Rail and road traffic were affected as trees and buildings suffered damage
Over 3 lakh homes as well as businesses saw power trouble on Sunday. However, Monday had 91 percent of the power restored.
Meanwhile, France saw 90 thousand houses with power outages on Monday. In fact, several flights were also cancelled in the nation while Paris saw train service disruption. Eight people were injured in Alsace’s Vosges mountains as winds were at 152 kmph. Germany’s Frankfurt airport saw 265 cancelled flights.
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