Now the Gironde is flooding storm warning while the Landes, Gers, the Pyrenees Atlantiques and the Hautes-Pyrénées are strong wind warning.
For these southwestern departments, Meteo France warned 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 the north of the Hautes-Pyrenees. Expected 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, stressing that “the risk period s extends from 0:00 to 6:00 Sunday morning. “
After the strong tobacco blow that struck the Hexagon of the Atlantic seaboard to the Touraine Saturday morning, the orange alert level for strong wind has instead lifted in the four Breton departments, and also in eight other departments: Charente-Maritime, Vendee, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Indre and Indre-et-Loire
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as a result of the storm, 21,000 customers were without power Saturday at 19 am, in the Loire Valley, including 6,000 in the department of Loire-Atlantique. They were more than 4000 in the evening (1500 in Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan, 1000 Vendée)
In Britain, power cuts involved 6,000 subscribers in Morbihan, in 1800 Finistère, 300 in the Cotes d’Armor and 200 in Ille-et-Vilaine. ERDF had hoped the end of the afternoon they would be no more than 2,000 customers without power Saturday night, including 1,500 in Brittany.
At the height of the storm, electricity dropped in 21,000 homes in Britain Saturday. Some 250 technicians ERDF and providers were mobilized to restore as quickly as the current in this region.
The alert for strong winds was maintained until Sunday morning to the southwestern departments. Forecasters speak of the order gusts of 100 to 120 km / h on the coast and 100 km / h inland. Gironde is mud orange alert. The arrival of a depression that widens the Atlantic landfall from Finistère to the Charente-Maritime.
torn roofs, power poles on the ground and damaged cars
at the height of the storm Saturday morning, gusts of wind reaching 148 km / h were reported on the island of Groix (Morbihan), 146 km / h in Camaret, on the peninsula island of Crozon (Finistère), and 144 km / h at the Pointe du Raz (Finistère), according to Météo-France. On average, on the coast of the tip of Brittany, the winds reached 125 and 135 km / h. Météo-France has also recorded winds of 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, the gusts reached 112 km / h in Bressuire (Deux-Sèvres), 97 km / h to 91 in Tours and Bourges.
The damages were limited Saturday despite very many falling branches and trees due to strong winds. The falling tree damaged a catenary near Vannes (Morbihan), immobilizing for about half past four TGV which was flying between Paris and Quimper. 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 the Finistère, the link between Douarnenez and the island of Sein 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.
In areas surrounding Libourne, recommendations of evacuation were launched by the prefecture, due to the weakening of certain dams on the Dordogne. The level of the Dordogne River, which joins the Garonne downstream of Bordeaux to form the Gironde estuary, reached 6.20 meters with a level close to that of the 1999 storm (6.30 meters).
Elsewhere, the town of Romans, near Saint-Maixent-Ecole, in Deux-Sèvres sustained substantial damage. According to France Bleu Poitou, the mayor spoke of “mini-tornado”. Fifteen houses and five farm buildings had their roofs torn off. Electric poles fell to the ground and cars were damaged. If two people were shocked supported by relief, there were no injuries. The city council has made available a room for residents.
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