The stormy episode was short but intense.
While the Gard and the Hérault experienced an episode of hail, late Sunday morning, lightning fell on the bell tower of the church of Mus.
This small town of 1,431 inhabitants is located in the Gard, halfway between Montpellier and Nîmes.
The Saint-Jean Baptiste Church has a Romanesque interior with a barrel-vaulted nave.
Lightning struck the campanile which houses the bells in the open air.
The steeple had been raised in 1898. Lightning struck the electrical system that controlled the clock system.
The four dials are out of order.
There were no casualties.
Company
Hérault and Gard: Despite 14,000 lightning strikes, the violent storms did not cause any victims or too much damage
Miscellaneous facts
Bad weather in the Gard: The bell tower of a church destroyed by lightning in a village
Miscellaneous facts
Planet
Occitania
Languedoc Roussillon
Church
Lightning