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Haute-Roya in search of resilience

2020-11-29T02:39:41.483Z


REPORT - The municipalities of the valley, like Tende, are struggling to recover from the disaster caused in early October by storm Alex.


Special envoy to Tende (Alpes-Maritimes)

“There is a quote from Charlie Chaplin that I like: 'From chaos the stars are born.'

You just have to prepare to be one of them… ”

In Tende, with its 2000 souls and 178 square kilometers which make it the most extensive locality in the Alpes-Maritimes, Sonia Klein is optimistic.

"The valley is not dead, we are moving towards a reconstruction, even if it will be long"

, estimates the coach and trainer of 55 years who, since the passage of the storm Alex, on October 2, has reconverted her small gallery of art in a bicycle repair workshop.

But two months after the disaster, not everyone is happy, as the living conditions remain trying in this mountain valley.

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The railway line that connects the town to the coast, reopened on October 19 by the SNCF, has been cut again since Saturday.

A damaged structure must be consolidated and the line should remain closed until the end of the year.

Only solution: take the road, recovered

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Source: lefigaro

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