FactualIn the UK, storm Dennis killed a man, and hundreds of planes were grounded.
Storm Dennis, which swept across Britain and northern France on Sunday, killed a man who fell in the Tawe River in South Wales and was placed on red alert due to heavy rain . This alert level, the highest, is equivalent to "Dangerous weather conditions" with "A danger of death", risks of disruption in energy supply and damage to infrastructure. In France, around 20,000 households were still without electricity on Monday, February 17 in Brittany, Pays de la Loire and Normandy, according to the network manager Enedis.
"We urge people to be careful and make arrangements to be safe," said Jeremy Parr, the head of flood risk management at the Welsh government agency responsible for natural resources.
"The storm should continue and the water should reach its maximum level on Monday and Tuesday", for its part warned the British Red Cross, asking the "People to stand by as if the worst is going to happen".
Several hundred flights to and from the whole of the UK are also grounded, British Airways and EasyJet said. Train traffic has also been suspended in South Wales due to the presence of water on the tracks.
In the same region, the city of Aberdaron suffered winds of more than 145 km / h and, at the Cray Reservoir dam, it fell 132.8 mm of rain in twenty-four hours, between Saturday morning and Sunday morning . The equivalent of more than a month of local precipitation.
The Department of Defense deployed the army to West Yorkshire, an area in the north of England hard hit the previous weekend by the floods caused by Storm Ciara.
