More than 8,000 homes without power in Britain, 4 departments Southwest wind orange alert – Le Parisien

000 subscribers in the Morbihan in Brittany 1,800, 300 in the Cotes d’Armor and 200 in Ille-et-Vilaine.
At the height of the storm, 21,000 homes were without electricity Saturday Britain. Some 250 technicians ERDF and providers were working to restore power as quickly as possible.
This recovery could occur as early as Saturday evening in the Cotes d’Armor and Ille-et-Vilaine, later Sunday for 3,000 homes and 500 of Morbihan in Brittany, which should still be without power Saturday evening, according to forecasts of ERDF. After the strong tobacco blow that struck the Hexagon of the Atlantic seaboard to Touraine on Saturday morning, the orange alert level for strong wind was lifted in four Breton departments, but also in eight other departments. Charente-Maritime, Vendee, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Indre and Indre-et-Loire
however, four other departments in the southwest of France, Les Landes, Gers, the Pyrenees Atlantiques and the Hautes-Pyrénées, entered orange alert for strong winds. in order to the southwestern departments, Météo-France warns that “a brief period of strong wind is expected for the next night”, from the Bay of Biscay.
It “should rush to the interior in the second half of night, even to the east of the Gers, and not really relate to the areas of the Basque Country in Béarn, and north of Hautes-Pyrénées . We expect gusts of around 100 to 120 km / h on the coast and in the order of 100 km / h in the interior, “provides Météo-France, noting that” the risk period runs from 0:00 to 6:00 Sunday morning “. further, the departments of Gironde and Landes are placed in flood orange alert.
at the height of the storm Saturday morning wind gusts reaching 148 km / h were reported on the island of Groix (Morbihan), 146 km / h in Camaret, on the peninsula of Crozon (Finistère), and 144 km / h at the Pointe du Raz (Finistère) by Météo-France. on average
on the coast of the tip of Brittany, the winds reached 125 135 km / hour, the source said.
Météo-France also noted winds to 106 km / h in Quimper (Finistère), 104 km / h in Lorient (Morbihan) and 108 km / h in Nort-sur-Erdre (Loire-Atlantique). in the interior, gusts reached 112 km / h in Bressuire (Deux-Sèvres), 97 km / h to 91 in Tours and Bourges.
damage were limited Saturday, despite many falling branches and trees, due to the strong winds.
falling tree damaged a catenary near Vannes (Morbihan), blocking for about half past four TGV which was flying between Quimper and Paris, have we learned from SNCF.
due to the intervention of agents of the SNCF, two TGV Quimper-Paris and Paris-Quimper were stopped at stations and were delayed two hours. in Finistère, the connection between Douarnenez and Sein island was suspended Saturday because of this winter storm, announced the shipping company Penn Ar Bed on its website. In Brest, traffic speed has been limited to 50 km / h on the bridge of Iroise because of the wind.