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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Death toll mounts as storms lash Europe AFP - 2 hours 5 minutes ago Send IM Story Print PARIS (AFP) - – Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 22 people dead and more than a million households without power. Dubbed "Xynthia", the Atlantic storm crashed against the western coasts of France and Spain overnight, bringing with it a band of foul weather stretching from Portugal to the Netherlands. Gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour (93 mph) and eight metre (26 foot) waves battered the western coast of France, spreading floods inland and sending residents scurrying onto rooftops. "We were warned, but I didn't think it could do this," said 62-year-old retiree Jean-Francois Dikczyk, who saw sea water surge several hundred metres inland and smash though bay windows into his house in the town of Yves. "My mother was nearly killed. She's 83 and disabled. She was sleeping on the ground floor, and her mattress was floating. My son and I managed to get her upstairs, but it was really catastrophic," he told AFP. Prefect Jean Jacques Brot, the chief government officer in the low-lying Vendee region, where flood waters in some coastal towns reached 1.5 metres, said that eight people drowned and others were missing in his area. Five more people drowned further south in Charente-Maritime, and air sea rescue and police helicopters were trying to locate marooned flood victims. In all, 18 people were confirmed dead in France over the weekend, according to Major Samuel Bernes, spokesman for the civil defence force, most of them drowned in the west coast flooding, but some killed by flying debris. Some boat owners ignored warnings and stayed onboard overnight in west coast marinas. "The boat was rolling so much it was like being on the ocean," said 60-year-old Robert Monne, who came ashore to find his car swept away. Britain, already suffering localised flooding from a previous weather system, was braced for more weather misery if the trailing edge of the storm hits its south coast en route to Scandinavia. In Spain, regional authorities said Sunday that two men aged 51 and 41 died when their car was hit by a falling tree. An 82-year-old woman was killed Saturday when a wall collapsed in the Galicia region. Portugal said Saturday that a 10-year-old boy was killed by a falling branch in the northwest of the country. There were no immediate reports of deaths in Belgium, but there was heavy rain and in the Charleroi district south of Brussels, emergency services were called out repeatedly to deal with fallen trees and power lines. In France, fallen powerlines caused blackouts for around a million homes across a 500 kilometre (310 mile) swathe of the country from the Brittany peninsula to the highlands of the Massif Central. Air France said 100 flights out of 700 were cancelled from its hub at Paris Charles de Gaulle, where an AFP reporter saw sections of one terminal roof starting to come loose. The storm brought chaos to transport networks across western Europe at the end of French schools' half-term break. A major road crossing between France and Spain was closed to heavy goods vehicles, causing a 1,200-vehicle tailback on the French side. Europe 1 radio reported wind speeds of 175 kilometres per hour at the tip of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but the storm fell short of the record 200-kph levels of the deadly 1999 hurricane. At least 30 trees that survived this earlier storm were uprooted in the forest park around the Chateau of Versailles, which lost 18,500 in 1999. The storm developed in the Atlantic off the Portuguese island of Madeira, still reeling from the flash floods sparked by heavy rains that wrecked the centre of the capital Funchal and killed 42 people a week ago. Powerful winds and heavy rain hit Spain's Canary Islands archipelago late on Friday, with gusts of up to 128 kilometres per hour reported. The storm swept northeast into northwestern Spain late on Saturday afternoon, where wind gusts reached 147 kph and some 27,000 households were without electricity, regional authorities said. Rail services were cancelled in Galicia as well as in the northern regions of Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country and parts of Castilla y Leon, where the storm left some 93,000 households without power. "This is a very deep, very intense and very fast-moving storm," Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said, warning people to avoid using their cars and taking mountain or sea walks. 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