Between January 24th and 25th 2025, Storm Éowyn struck Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the United Kingdom. It was the most powerful storm to hit Ireland since the 60s. With barely a day to recover, Storm Herminia hit the south of England, Wales, and North-western France.
i live in Brittany, one of the regions hit. My department, Ille-et-Vilaine, takes its name from two rivers that merge in my city: Ille and Vilaine. The two rivers flow and meet in the city before going south to the towns of Pont-Réan, Guichen, etc, before reaching another big city: Redon. All of them got flooded.
On January 26th, i took my camera out along with my Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens to get some shots of the worst of the damage that occurred in Rennes, focused on the path of the Ille river. The Prairies Saint-Martin, a former pastoral area converted into a flood control zone, was completely drowned in flood water. Several other streets nearby were impracticable, and 400 people were displaced.
Thankfully, as far as we can tell, nobody was seriously injured. Nonetheless, the pictures are impressive.
For the interest of potentially sharing some of those in a different context
later, they are all licensed under CC0. If you do attribute (and i would
encourage it), author should be lux alopex lemoni, as in the EXIF data.
