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The
Netherlands braced for the storm by closing water barriers that protect
the low-lying country from high tides. The Oosterscheldekering in the
south-western delta region of the country was being closed to protect
the land behind it for the first time since 2007. National carrier KLM
cancelled dozens of flights to European airports as a precaution.
Storm surges were feared Thursday off the coast of Jutland in
western Denmark, the Danish weather service DMI said. DMI also forecast
hurricane-force gales would sweep across the country. Danish train
operator DSB said it would reduce traffic on its local and regional
train routes. The move was to avoid trains being stranded on tracks
because of severed power lines and to reduce the risk of being hit by
falling trees or debris. Western and southern Norway were also bracing
for the pending storm.
In western Denmark the 72-year-old female passenger of a truck died when the vehicle overturned in howling winds.
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Dutch cancel flights as storm looms
Updated: 09:25, Thursday December 5, 2013
Dutch
national carrier KLM says it has scrapped 84 flights to and from
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after forecasters sounded a 'code orange'
extreme weather warning.The Netherlands is preparing for heavy storms on
Thursday with surging tides and winds predicted to gust up to 130km/h
in places in the north.In the south, the landmark Eastern Scheldt storm
surge barrier has been closed off for the first time in six years,
public broadcaster NOS reported.'As a result of the extreme weather
expected, we have cancelled 84 flights to and from Amsterdam,' KLM
(Royal Dutch Airlines) spokesman Joost Ruempol told AFP.'These are
flights going to and coming in from across the continent,' he
added.Inter-continental flights will go ahead as scheduled, but
travellers flying KLM to European destinations are advised to check for
regular updates on the airline's website, Ruempol said.
Rescue workers stand next to a car crushed by a falling tree near Rheibach, Germany. Photograph: Axel Vogel/Corbis
The death toll across Europe from storms that began sweeping the continent on Sunday has reached at least 12, with Britain, Germany and the Netherlands among the hardest hit. Four people died in the south of England
after winds gusting up to nearly 100mph felled trees, and another four
were killed on Monday in Germany, adding to two deaths at sea off the
German coast on Sunday.
In Amsterdam a woman was killed and
another person injured when a tree by a canal was blown over. Other
injuries were reported around the city from falling debris.
In Denmark
a man died after he was hit by a flying brick north of Copenhagen. In
France a woman was still missing on Monday night after being swept out
to sea from a cliff at Belle-Ile, Brittany.
Transport
infrastructure took a battering across the continent. Sustained winds of
more than 75mph caused the cancellation of 50 flights at Amsterdam's
Schiphol airport, Europe's fourth largest, and there were delays at
Europe's busiest port in Rotterdam.
Hurricane-strength winds topple trees, cut power supplies and cause travel chaos across northern Europe.
As a deadly storm moves from Britain to mainland Europe, a tree falls on a car in Amsterdam, killing a woman.
Large waves break against the dyke at the port of Boulogne in northern France.
People watch a boat from the shore as a storm passes over the beach in Scheveningen in the Netherlands.
Some
10 people have died in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Scandinavia
after a fatal storm that struck Britain swept eastwards to northern
Europe.
A Danish man was killed near Copenhagen by a collapsing
wall, a woman was killed by falling trees in Amsterdam and a 47-year-old
woman was found dead after being swept out to sea during a cliff walk
on Belle Ile in France.
At least seven people died in Germany with
falling trees killing several drivers. One man also drowned and a
66-year-old woman died when a wall collapsed on her, German media
reported. Thirteen floor high scaffolding comes down in Merksem, AntwerpenHurricane-strength
winds cut power supplies and forced the cancellation of hundreds of
flights and train journeys across the continent.
Southern Sweden
was hit by torrential rain, and winds up to 84mph (136kph) blew down
trees, blocking roads and bringing down power lines, leaving around than
50,000 homes without electricity.
As evening fell there were no reports of injuries in Sweden but widespread reports of property damage.
LONDON—At
least 11 people were killed on Monday as a fierce storm tore across
northern Europe, causing mass disruption to transport.
Four people
were killed in Britain and three in Germany as heavy rain and high
winds battered the region. The storm also claimed two victims in The
Netherlands, one in France and one in Denmark.
Rough conditions at
sea also forced rescuers to abandon the search for a 14-year-old boy
who disappeared while playing in the surf on a southern English beach on
Sunday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron described the loss of life as “hugely regrettable.”
Winds
reached 99 miles (159 kilometers) per hour on the Isle of Wight off the
southern English coast, according to Britain’s Met Office national
weather center, while more than 500,000 homes in Britain and France were
left without power.
Heavy rain and winds of 80 mph elsewhere
brought down thousands of trees and left hundreds of passengers trapped
in planes at Copenhagen airport.
In Britain, a 17-year-old girl
died after a tree fell on the parked caravan where she was sleeping,
while a 51-year-old father of three died when a tree hit his car, police
said.
The bodies of a man and a woman were later found in the
rubble of three houses in London that collapsed in an explosion thought
to have been caused by a gas pipe being ruptured in the storm.
