The remnants of hurricane Kirk moved into Western Europe on Wednesday, sweeping across Portugal, Spain, and especially France. Strong winds knocked down trees in Portugal and Spain before dumping heavy rains on France that left at least one dead.
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00:00South African carried the move into Western Europe on Wednesday, sweeping across Portugal,
00:04Spain and especially France. Strong winds knocked down trees in Portugal and Spain
00:09before dumping heavy rains in France that left at least one dead. The storm hit the
00:14port city of Seine in southern France and overturned three boats, killing one amateur
00:22sailor and putting another one in hospital in critical conditions.
00:30From nine o'clock onwards, I started looking at the gate to see how the water was rising,
00:37because I knew it was going to rise and rise. And it was rising very, very fast,
00:46much faster than usual. And every quarter of an hour, I moved a stone and when it arrived in my
00:51yard. As soon as it arrived in my yard, I called the firemen to evacuate me and my wife.
01:05I've just gone to pick up some things with a friend who's currently putting us up for a few
01:09days and the fire brigade took us away in a boat. We opened the house and there's 30 to 40 centimeters
01:15of water inside. Everywhere. Everything is floating. Everything is sinking. Everything
01:20is dead. Everything is plasterboard. So everything is dead.