Photo: AFPThe Local · 14 Sep 2016, 08:27Published: 14 Sep 2016 08:27 GMT+02:00Some 120,000 homes in western France were without electricity on Wednesday morning after violent storms swept through the region. The country’s weather agency Météo France recorded 70,000 different lightning strikes across the storm-hit areas overnight on Tuesday. And the extreme weather is not over yet with seven departments still on orange alert – the second highest warning level, with more storms forecast. The storms left their mark with homes from the Pyrennees in the south west right up to Brittany in the north west hit by power cuts. In the department of Gironde some 23,000 homes saw power cut by the storms, many of which were around the Bordeaux area.

Source: The Local September 14, 2016 06:33 UTC