To the east, Dennis' gale-force winds also injured nine people in car accidents in Germany as trees crashed down onto roads and train tracks. Flooding and power outages were reported elsewhere in northern Europe.
The weather system brought winds of more than 145 kph and up to 150 millimeters of rain to Britain over the weekend. Jeanette Cox, 68 and her daughter Rachel woke up to the sound of water in their home in the Welsh village of Nantgarw, near Cardiff, about at 4 am. Sunday. Cox said the only object that survived downstairs was a photograph of her wedding day that she had kept on the windowsill. Her husband Bill died from cancer in 2009.
"We'll never be able to protect every single household, just because of the nature of climate change and the fact that these weather events are becoming more extreme, but we've done everything that we can do with a significant sum of money, and there's more to come, " Environment Secretary George Eustice said.
A commuter train with 67 passengers also crashed into a fallen tree on the tracks in the western German city of Dortmund, but nobody was injured. And in the German city of Hamburg, the city's famous fish market was flooded for the second time this month.
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