During the night of Saturday to Sunday last week, a wave of violent storms swept across the south of France from west to east, causing significant material damage.
In Bordeaux, the headquarters of LPS France, the Saint-Michel spire, a tall historical building, was struck by lightning, as shown in this video:
Read the press articles:
- Lightning strikes the Saint-Michel spire in Bordeaux
- Lightning struck the tram in Bordeaux; the line was interrupted near the airport
- A house destroyed by lightning in Dordogne
- Lightning strikes an apartment building, a house, and a farmhouse
- A house struck by lightning in the Hautes-Pyrénées, "It looked like a bomb," testifies the owner