Cyclone Garance left a trail of damage and what a resident described as a “spectacle of desolation” on Reunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean, between February 28 and March 1.
Footage filmed by X user @Mp97440 shows strong winds blowing open a gate on February 28, the day Cyclone Garance made landfall on Reunion Island. It also shows several trees down in the source’s garden.
@Mp97440 wrote on X about “the feeling of being stunned by the experience and its spectacle of desolation,” and defined the passage of the cyclone “traumatic”.
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France TV Info reported on Saturday that the death toll from the cyclone had risen to four, after a man trapped under a tree in Saint Denis had died.
The island was on a meteorological alert until Sunday afternoon. Credit: @Mp97440 via Storyful
