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XYNTHIA - The Atlantic Storm that has rocked France.

Although Severe weather warning were issued, the storm took most by suprise.

Xynthia was a violent European windstorm which crossed Western Europe on 26–28 February 2010. More than 50 people were killed in France, with a further 12 said to be missing, where it was described by the civil defence as the most violent since Lothar in 1999. A further six people were killed in Germany, three people in Spain, one in Portugal and another one in Belgium. Most of the deaths in France occurred when a powerful storm surge topped by battering waves up to 7.5 m (25 ft) high, hitting at high tide, smashed though the sea wall off the coastal town of L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer. A mobile home park built close to the sea wall was particularly hard-hit. The sea wall was about two hundred years old, built in the time of Napoleon, and locating a mobile home park so close to it showed poor coastal development practices, critics said. The storm cut power to more than 1 million homes in France, and up to 1 million customers in Portugal also lost power. Read more.....

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