Sandbags remain piled outside front doors on the roads of a town in northwest Ireland where Storm Bert caused a river to burst its banks and flow through a street. "The river just basically flowed down the street and flooded the whole street here right up to halfway up the hill toward main street there and there was just devastation for everywhere," says Thomas Pringle, member of parliament for Donegal. Ireland, Britain and France are facing travel chaos as the winter storm batters northwest Europe, with at least 60,000 properties in Ireland left without power. The storm also closed roads and some ferry and train routes on both sides of the Irish Sea. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES