Being Marciac Jazz Festival the château was full of guests and their expensive cars were parked outside under the shade of a 150 year-old oak tree. The tornado made short work of the ancient tree and it fell onto four cars, two of which were entirely crushed. The pictures below show the fallen tree but it is so big it is difficult to see the crushed cars.
Having suffered two bouts of serious flooding and now a devastating tornado, one cannot help but sympathise with the owners.