Bordeaux – Bad weather: more than 5 departments in orange alert – L’Express

The Charente-Maritime, the Ille-et-Vilaine and the Vendée have been removed from the list of monitored departments.

Do not remain vigilant orange that both departments of Corsica, the Gironde, Landes and Pyrenees-Atlantic.

The wind alert, which had moved to the east in the day, was lifted early evening in fifteen Northeast departments.

The Corsica was placed on orange alert for strong winds expected to reach Wednesday 150 km / h on the north of the island, according to Météo France. Wind gusts of up to 100km / h to 130 km / h are also planned for the rest of Corsica.

“ The winds will strengthen markedly from (Wednesday) morning “, and should weaken in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, according to the forecaster.

Gironde rivers have been placed on alert flooding due to the rise expected levels of streams associated with strong tidal coefficients greater than 100.

in Burgundy, over 150 ERDF technicians were deployed to restore power to 5,000 homes. In Côte d’Or including 1,180 homes had no power, especially in the territory of Saulieu, Semur and Chatillon. In Nievre, the Yonne and Saône-et-Loire, over 3,700 homes were also affected by these cuts.

– Delays TGV Paris-Clermont –

A tree fell early in the afternoon on a catenary between Cosne-sur-Loire (Nièvre) and Gien (Loiret) causing major delays on the SNCF Paris-Clermont.

In the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the majority of the damage caused by the storm was Ruzica “ treated “, ERDF said. He remained “ less than 300 industry customers to electricity .”

The tents of the new migrants’ camp in Grande-Synthe (Nord), scheduled to open in March, however, have been uprooted, according to an AFP photographer.

In the East, despite hundreds of interventions no serious incidents were reported. Moselle, two motorway exits were cut, while in Meuse, nearly 1,000 people were without power in the late afternoon. ERDF intervention was underway to restore power in 10 towns affected.

On Tuesday morning, due to the fall of chimney pieces, a 53 year old man was seriously injured in Troyes (Aube). Another person was slightly injured in the incident.

At Troyes and Epernay public parks and gardens were closed. In the Marne, firefighters made twenty interventions for some power lines on the ground, and for falling branches and tiles mainly around Chalons-en-Champagne and Epernay.

In the Paris suburb of Cachan (Val-de-Marne), two people were injured, one seriously by a falling tree in the courtyard of the Graduate School of Public Works ( ESTP): he is a man of about fifty years suffering from multiple fractures.

Always near Paris, “ because of strong winds, the park, gardens and Trianon palaces are closed Tuesday ,” tweeted the direction of Versailles.

Monday, winds of up to 140 km / h had swept the north and west of France, generating impressive waves on the coast, but limited damage.

In Paris, one of the two people injured Monday by a falling billboard Porte Maillot, a woman, was still in a coma Tuesday noon and his prognosis remained committed.

The purpose of the event is scheduled for Wednesday 8:00 p.m..