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. The national weather service had issued flood and wind warnings as Storm Herminia hit Spain,

The city's mayor said it was the most severe flooding in more than four decades. This latest storm follows quickly on the back of Storm Éowyn, which had already led to saturated ground in Brittany and Normandy.