samedi 9 août 2014

Rain, wind, hail: Storm wave sweeping the country

Up to 55,000 homes were without power in the West, where the rail traffic was suspended in some areas due to falling trees. Rain is likely Saturday Pyrenees Rhone-Alpes.

Tree on road or power lines, houses, power outages, brownouts come. The storms that hit on Friday evening and at night, after they brought their collateral damage.

West, were about 55,800 households (including 44,500 in Midi-Pyrénées and Aquitaine 11,300) larégion without electricity. On Saturday morning, there were still 23,600: 6500 Aquitaine (Pyrenees Atlantiques, mostly), and 17,100 in Midi-Pyrénées (Gers, Tarn-et-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées and Aveyron). Gusts of 122 kmh was measured in Millau in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

About 240 firefighters in the Pyrenees Atlantiques intervene. A firefighter was slightly injured ankle and knee Pontacq. Stormy passage of the most famous between 06.00-19: 30 Area: No Pontacq Lasseube Soumoulou and eastern Pyrenees Atlantiques. Gusts of 108 km / h were recorded, Ger, 30 km east of Pau.

Trees and branches of roads and railways led to the overthrow of the 19 hours, the judgment TER Pau-Oloron online. Four trains were withdrawn on Friday evening to the passengers to oust coach, and five other companies will be forced to Saturday, 14 hours before the recognition of roads and traffic resumed.

Many-et-Garonne, carried out 23 firefighters interventions are mainly trees, power lines and flooded roads and basements. In the Dordogne, performed fifteen savior without the intervention of gravity. And (...) Read more Figaro.fr

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