[caption id="attachment_3095" align="alignleft" width="812"] Michael Nugent, the owner of Nugelato ice cream cleans up his shop in Sugar Island, Newry Town, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, amid heavy rainfall.Brian Lawless/PA[/caption] Winds of up to 180 km/h (108 mph) lashed France's Atlantic coast overnight as Storm Ciaran devastated countries in Western Europe, uprooting trees, smashing doors shutdown and left 1.2 million homes in France without electricity on Thursday. Heavy rain accompanied by a storm hit the southwestern tip of England, the British national weather forecast agency warned of the risk of flooding and urged people to take preventive measures. Dutch airline KLM canceled all flights from early afternoon until the end of the day, citing forecasts of high wind speeds and strong gusts in the Netherlands. One death related to bad weather has been confirmed in France. A truck driver was killed when his vehicle was hit by a tree in Aisne, northern France, Transport Minister Clément Beaune said. Almost all the coast of mainland France was under severe weather warnings on Thursday morning, from Calais on the English Channel to the Atlantic coast to Spain, as was much of the coast French Mediterranean and Corsica, by national weather service Météo-France. Meteorological services reported record wind speeds of 180 km/h along the Brittany coast. Winds reached 160 km/h on the Normandy coast and up to 150 km/h inland. Waves of nearly 10 meters high are forecast at the northwestern tip of the country. Local trains were canceled in much of western France and all roads in the Breton Finistère were closed on Thursday morning. Beaune urged people to avoid driving and at least exercise caution when traveling through areas with weather warnings. “We see how dangerous the roads can be in these circumstances,” he told France-Info. The storm cut power to about 1.2 million homes in France on Thursday morning, electricity company Enedis announced in a press release. This concerns about half of households in Brittany, the Atlantic peninsula most affected by Ciaran. Enedis announced that it will deploy 3,000 workers to restore power as soon as weather conditions allow.