Deadly Storm Batters Western Europe With Record Lightning, Widespread Damage

by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau ChiefNOORDWIJK, NETHERLANDS (Worthy News) – A powerful thunderstorm system sweeping across Western Europe killed at least one person in the Netherlands, injured several others in Belgium and Germany, and caused widespread damage as nearly 190,000 lightning flashes illuminated the skies, authorities said Saturday.Dutch police said a 25-year-old woman was killed shortly after midnight when a tree fell onto a car near the village of ’t Haantje in th