Storms lash seven nation in Europe

2010-03-01 17:40:28 - Storms windy force with surging seas and rain lashed western Europe, killing nearly sixty people and million households without power affecting big wigs Euro nation France, Germany,Portugal, Spain, Nederland, Belgium and Britain.

"Xynthia", the Atlantic storm crashed the western coasts of France and Spain Germany overnight, damaging weather extended from Portugal to the Netherlands, in eastern Belgium,a man was killed by a falling tree in Belgium..
the storm finally reached England,where one woman reported dead as her vehicle submerged and washed down she was driving .

Most of the casualties were in France, where gusts of 150 kilometres per hour and eight metre waves battered the west coast, flooding inland and sending residents scurrying onto rooftops.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon said France would formally declare the storm a natural disaster, freeing up funds to help communities rebuild, as Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux put the national death toll at "between 45 and 50".

"We were warned, but I didn't think it could do this," said 62-year-old retiree Jean-Francois Dikczyk, who saw the sea surge several hundred metres inland and smash though the windows of his house."My mother was nearly killed. She's 83 and disabled. She was sleeping on the ground floor, and her mattress was floating. My son and I managed to get her upstairs, but it was really catastrophic," he told the news agency.

In the western town of La-Faute-sur-Mer, householder Jean-Pierre was left barefoot and homeless.A high alert in Cambs and warnings in Suffolk, Bucks, Essex and Beds more problems in North Yorks and Sunderland. Thames Barrier was closed twice to reduce the flooding to London.Further reported train services in south London were disrupted because of flooding at Clapham.Media agencies