French residents rescued from flooded homes by boat as Storm Herminia hits Normandy and Brittany Residents in western France used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke their banks after successive storms battered Normandy and Brittany.
Normandy and Brittany were already waterlogged after the passage of last week's Storm Éowyn — which left two people dead from fallen trees and more than 1 million people without electricity in Ireland and Britain.
The national weather service had issued flood and wind warnings as Storm Herminia hit Spain, France on parts of the UK.
France's weather service issued further flood and wind warnings for Tuesday for all regions on the western coast, from Brittany down to the Spanish border.
Storm Herminia caused road closures in some areas of France.
