Snow route – AFP

France has not finished with the bad weather. After the night complicated that have lived millions of French, especially in the Northern half, Météo France has launched a new alert to the snow and ice in ten departments of the eastern, this Friday. Are concerned, the Ardennes, Meuse, Haute-Marne, Côte-d’or, Haute-Saone, the Doubs, the Ain, the Isere, the Jura and the Territory of Belfort.

Haute-Corse is placed in vigilance orange for strong wind.

The country has been affected on Thursday evening and in the night from Thursday to Friday by a ” severe winter storm extremely violent “. Not less than 237.000 homes were without power Friday morning in the north, the centre and the east of France, by reason of a violent wind. The ministry of the Interior are 4.452 interventions.

At the height of the storm in the night, more than 330,000 homes were without electricity in France, said Enedis. A Thalys has been “blocked in the Sum [for] too long hours due to a branch that would have fallen on the tracks,” said Bruno Le Roux, before the situation unlocks. Nearly 6,000 firefighters were still engaged.

“A small crowd of about fifty people” were injured slightly, but there has been ” no deaths “, added the minister, who was visiting the morning of Friday, the operational Centre of inter-ministerial management of crises (COGIC).

weather conditions remain unstable

5: 30am, the power cuts have affected mainly the 70,000 homes in the region of Picardie, 65,000 in Normandy, 17,000 in the North-Pas-de-Calais, 13.000 in the Centre region, 12,000 in the Champagne-Ardennes and pays-de-la-Loire, finally 9,700 from Lorraine, said Enedis. On Thursday evening at 22h, the power cuts affected the 190,000 homes.

” We expected this increase, taking into account weather conditions that were announced, “according to Enedis, which states that” the workforce is going