Photo Gallery Europe Digs Out
Shipping was severely hampered across Europe on Thursday. This British container ship was abandoned in the English Channel by its crew. The ship developed cracks in the hull and was being towed to port on Friday.
After the storm battered the continent all night Friday dawned clear and calm in the city of Dresden.
Parts of Austria were hit hard. Here, fallen trees block a road into Salzburg.
Strong rains produced flooding in a number of regions, like here on the Lenne River near Dortmund in Germany.
Bits of the ceiling fell in on the Germanischen Museum in Cologne, landing on this mosaic. Workers spread styrofoam on the display to protect it from further damage.
This train on its way from Vienna to Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic got stuck on Thursday night when the tracks were covered with downed trees. It was only freed on Friday.
Millions of customer across Great Britain and continental Europe lost power as a result of the storm.
A roof torn off of an apartment house in Wroclaw, Poland landed on cars parked in the street.
A tree in the Black Forest was ripped out of the ground roots and all on Thursday evening.
High voltage power lines came crashing down in Germany as a result of the storm. Workers began restoring power on Friday.
For most in Europe, things were largely back to normal on Friday. But it will take more time for some in rural areas to get their power back.
Wind gusts reached almost 100 m.p.h. in Austria in the early hours of Friday morning. Here, a roof lies on a street in Wals, Austria.
In Bavaria, rain from the storm melted what little snow had fallen in the foothills, and cut off electricity as well.
In Essen, flowers were placed at the site where a 34-year-old motorcycle rider was killed by a falling tree.
