After the stormy winds, the risk of flooding. Eight departments are affected by orange vigilance for “floods”, valid until Monday, announced Sunday November 5 Meteo France. These are Gironde, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Charente, Dordogne, Corrèze, as well as Pas-de-Calais. The Var, the Alpes-Maritimes, the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Corse-du-Sud are also placed on yellow alert concerning the risks of “wave-submersion”. Follow our live stream.
Dextensive damage to the rail network. The passage of storm Domingos over the south-west of France caused extensive damage to the railway network in New Aquitaine. It also caused huge delays for two trains on the Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse line, due to trees lying on the tracks. The passengers had to spend the night at Brive station (Corrèze), SNCF said on Sunday.
Nearly 160,000 homes are without electricity, according to Enedis. Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the region most affected, with 56,000 customers without power in Charente-Maritime, 24,000 in Charente and 26,000 in Gironde.
An Enedis employee mobilized in Brittany after Ciaran’s passage has died. “The precise circumstances of this accident are not yet known.explains Enedis in a press release, which emphasizes having learned of the death on Saturday evening. The storm, which caused significant damage during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, caused at least 19 victims in Europe, including six in Italy and three in France.
Domingos moves away from France. The storm caused gusts of 151 km/h in Cap-Ferret overnight. The wind blew strong with 147 km/h recorded on the Île de Ré, 155 km/h on the Oléron bridge, and 114 km/h in La Rochelle, according to Météo-France. Many trees were uprooted, reports AFP. The storm left at least three injured, a firefighter from La Vienne, according to the prefecture, a man who fell on a scooter in Deux-Sèvres, according to the firefighters and a person slightly affected by the fall of a tree in La Rochelle , according to the town hall.