Storm shuts airports, cuts power to thousands
China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-11 07:47
|
A person drives a car on the flooded seafront yesterday in Ver-sur-Mer, western France, as hurricane-force gusts up to 140 kph were recorded on France's west coast. AFP |
Some 400,000 homes were still without power yesterday after a violent storm with winds reaching nearly 140 km per hour knocked out electricity across a wide swath of western and central France, the country's electricity distribution authority said.
Photo
