A 57-year-old woman died in the early morning this Thursday in the northern France crushed by a mudslide caused by the rain and hail storm that plagues the country, while her husband is injured, the authorities indicated. In the French capital, a thunderstorm lit up the sky and lightning hit the iconic Eiffel Tower.
In the north, the Prefecture (Government delegation) indicated that the mudslide It affected an entire neighborhood in the town of Courmellescausing drama.
The woman was dragged through the mudthat exceeded one and a half meters high in the house, while the man managed to escape with injuries.
The storm spread from north to south over most of French territory and caused significant disruption and material damage.
More than 4,000 rays
Only in the Seine-et-Marne department, east of Paris4,100 lightning strikes were recorded in one night of strong electrical activity that caused 18,589 throughout the country. One of them hit the Eiffel Tower in the capital without causing apparent damage.
It is not the first time that this phenomenon occurs. “Since its birth in 1889, the monument ‘attracts’ lightning during thunderstorms: there is an average of five impacts per year“, reads its official website.
Flight problems
Up to 14 departments had been placed on orange alert, second in importance for violent stormswith episodes of large hail.
The storms in the region have also caused many traffic problems at airports, and several flights have been diverted.
Many flights destined for the Paris airports of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly They had to be diverted to other cities, such as Lille, Nantes, Lyon or Brussels, in the face of the storm, which is causing delays.
With information from EFE and RFI
