"For the past hour, it's been non-stop, with really impressive gusts," said Adrien Banor, a resident of Les Avirons, a town located on the west coast of France's Reunion island, as Cyclone Garance continues to batter the island. Winds of up to 230 kilometres (143 miles) per hour battered the territory of 900,000 people and the storm earlier forced the closure of the main airport on nearby Mauritius. Power outages affected around 145,000 people across the island, while 82,000 had no drinking water and 39,000 were without internet access, authorities said. COMPLETES VIDI36YU2RE_EN, VIDI36YR6FW_EN, VIDI36YU7D2_EN IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES