An already heavy toll. Storm Eunice continues to sweep northwestern Europe on Saturday morning, February 19, with strong gusts still expected on the German coasts. It leaves in its wake significant material damage and at least nine dead.
Formed in Ireland, the storm passed Friday over part of the United Kingdom, northern France and Benelux, before continuing its course towards Denmark and Germany. A large northern third of German territory was placed on red alert until Saturday morning.“There is a risk of gusts of severe storm force (level 3 out of 4). Maximum gust: 100-115 km/h”warned the German meteorological services, warning of the risks of uprooted trees, falling branches or even damaged roofs.
Eunice left a sight of desolation in her path and caused major disruption. Hundreds of flights, trains and ferries were canceled across northwestern Europe amid extreme winds from the storm, which rolled in less than 48 hours after Storm Dudley (at least six dead in Poland and Germany).
At this stage, thirteen deaths have been recorded because of Eunice: two in Poland and Germany, four in the Netherlands, three in England, one in Belgium as well as in Ireland.
Early on Saturday, a driver was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle in Altenberge (Germany), in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Netherlands, the four victims were killed by falling trees or in accidents, according to the Dutch emergency services. In The Hague (Netherlands), dozens of houses were evacuated for fear of the collapse of the steeple of a church. In Ireland, a 60-year-old man has died in the southeast of the country, police say.
In London, a woman in her thirties was killed in the afternoon by a tree falling on the car in which she was a passenger, and a man in his fifties was killed near Liverpool (United Kingdom) , when debris hit the windshield of the vehicle he was in. A 79-year-old Canadian who lived on a boat in the marina of Ypres (Belgium) died after falling into the water while trying to recover objects that had flown away.