Some homes without electricity, dozens of stations Ski closed, a village cut off from the world … For several days, the Pyrénées reached a warning level avalanche up and try to avoid accidents. Admittedly, in places, it fell to 2 meters Snow . And that’s not all.
• New alert weather . After heavy rains last weekend, during which up to 2 feet of snow fell, blocking the stations of the Pyrenees, the Southwest but also South departments are preparing a new episode of bad weather. Weather France added the Var Tuesday morning the 15 departments already placed in amber alert Tuesday 4am to Wednesday 13h : Andorra, Ariège, Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône , Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Hérault, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques , Hautes-Pyrenees, Pyrenees-Orientales, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne and Vaucluse.
Here is the weather alert card:
In the detail, snow is expected to the plain, including the cities of Montpellier and Toulouse. Disruption addresses at the end of the night Aquitaine coast, first giving precipitation as rain and snow on the coastal area, then quickly progressing into the interior of the southwest and then to the Gulf of Lions in snow. Expected plain snow depth is around 2 to 5 cm, locally 10 to 15 cm, including approaching relief. This snowfall concern especially Midi-Pyrénées from the sunrise.
The snow then will shift to the Roussillon in the early morning and Languedoc, and finally at midday Lower Rhone Valley, before going to Provence and finally Coast Azur in Tuesday night and the Var in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. The highest accumulations are expected in the Camargue area and up the Rhone with 15 to 20 cm of snow locally. Departments in northern limit of the Orange area will be to a lesser extent also affected by snowfall.
• The snowfall could complicate traffic conditions. The interior minister reacted to the announcement Monday by France of a new weather alert. “Throughout the Pyrenean, the risk of avalanches remains very high,” -t he warned in a statement Monday night, citing “a new snowfall” Tuesday could also “complicate traffic conditions and operation of networks. ”
• Bus cut Toulouse, t School transport goods interrupted in several departments. Hautes-Pyrénées and Gers decided to interrupt the flow of school transport on Tuesday, due to the return of the orange alert. The Bouches-du-Rhône took the same choice, except the city of Marseille. In Toulouse and throughout Toulouse area, bus traffic was interrupted Tuesday morning. Subways and trams however operating normally.
• High risk of a valanches several avalanches over the weekend, five skiers away Monday . Météo-France also maintains a “strong avalanche risk (index 4 of 5) on all the Pyrenean mountains” after a day of Sunday classified to maximum (5 of 5). It is in this context that five skiers were taken Monday in an avalanche near the ski station of Mourtis Pyrenees, in Haute-Garonne. One of them succumbed to his injuries, said the director of the station was sorry that skiers are gone after “nevertheless been warned against the dangers of avalanches.” “This young man crashed into the barriers when it was taken away. He could not be revived by the emergency.” Three skiers are free, another was hospitalized with a probable fracture of a tibia, has he said
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A large slide hit Sunday on the Gourette in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques. No casualties were taken away, the station being closed at the time of snowfall, but the chairlift was destroyed on the passage of the snow mass.
Monday morning, it was time to secure the slopes and sending snow plows. “The goal is to trigger avalanches preventively so that they do not come on the ski area,” said Philippe Padelli, agent of the ski area of Gourette. A helicopter was sent to bring snowfall upstream through detonations.
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Other skiers away in avalanches. Within days, the Pyrenees have been victims of several avalanches. Three people have also been buried Saturday in the village of Aulon, located at the entrance of the Pyrenees National Park.
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• The electricity for 1,000 homes still cut off . At 17 am on Monday, 1,000 homes were still without electricity in the Hautes-Pyrénées (700) and the Pyrenees-Atlantiques (300). They were 3,000 in the early morning.
• Aulon, a village cut off from the world . One access blocked by a snow slide at a hundred meters from the village. Aulon is now cut off from the world. Monday morning, helicopters flew over the village all morning to trigger avalanches. Only the phone allows you to attach the inhabitants. “We can not send people on it (the snow slides) without it being served,” said Daniel Fu, head of the General Council of the Pyrénées area:
• How can I learn? Several ski resorts were still closed Monday. But difficult to organize leisure travelers. To provide information on road conditions and know what access and stations are closed, the Hautes-Pyrénées prefect regularly updates his Facebook page. The Twitter accounts of the stations concerned also help to keep up before driving. Explanation:
• Back to school has been complicated in the Pyrenees
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