On Saturday, Ireland, Britain, and France saw transport anarchy; one person died as a winter storm tore northwest Europe with high winds, heavy rain, snow and ice.

Early in the day, a man died after a tree fell on a car on a main route close to Winchester, Hampshire Police in southern England reported.

Police in West Yorkshire said they were investigating whether the storm had any bearing on a second death from a traffic accident. It is known that the road was not frozen at the incident’s occurrence.

Storm Bert stopped highways and certain ferry and train lines on both sides of the Irish Sea in addition to leaving at least 60,000 houses in Ireland without electricity.

While in France tens of thousands of people were without electricity on Thursday following Storm Caetano, channel ports and airports in Britain suffered. When power outages stopped trains, hundreds of passengers were left stranded.

Media imagery revealed flooding in Ireland’s west, which also resulted in rail cancellements in Northern Ireland. Snow affected transport all throughout Britain.

With hundreds of flood warnings in force, Scotland and areas of northern and central England suffered from the most weighty snowfall.

Declaring there was a “good probability some rural villages could be shut off,” the UK Met Office issued snow and ice warnings for selected areas.

While Britain recorded winds approaching 113 kilometers (70 mph), Scottish hills might see up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) of snow.

With sailings from Newhaven and Dover in southern England to Dieppe and Calais in France badly disrupted, ferry operator DFDS canceled services on some routes until Monday.

Thick snow caused disruptions to aircraft at Newcastle airport; some were diverted to Belfast and Edinburgh.

Running rail services between England and Scotland, Avanti West Coast warned consumers not to try travel outside of the northern English city of Preston, since it canceled many trains.

Along with the road closures declared, National Highways also issued a “severe weather alert” warning of “blizzard conditions” impacting Yorkshire and northeast England.

Furthermore warning “extremely strong winds and heavy rain” was Met Eireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service.

ESB Networks, which oversees Ireland’s energy infrastructure, found that western and northwest counties suffered most from power disruptions.

“Crews and contractors are deployed and restoring electricity in affected regions where it is safe to do so,” it stated.

The National Grid operator reported in Britain that “many homes and businesses” had their power restored, but on Saturday, more than 4,000 residences all throughout the nation remained without electricity—the most in Southwest England.

Two days after Storm Caetano devastated northern France, around 47,000 houses still lacked electricity, according to power operator Enedis on Saturday.

The storm had cut off up to 270,000 people, but Enedis claimed it had 2,000 experts working to re-connect power lines ripped down by winds of up to 130kph.

Power shortages stopped two trains carrying several hundred people in western France.

Up to nine hours were spent in the carriages by some 200 individuals on a train heading from Hendaye to Bordeaux and 400 on high-speed TGV heading from Hendaye to Paris.

The power interruption affected up to 1,000 people on various trains, said to transport minister Francois Dourovray to RTL radio.