Storm Ciara, which swept across a large northern third of France, would have killed at least one. A man, in his forties, died on Sunday February 9 in Drancy in Seine-Saint-Denis while riding a scooter. It would have fallen due to a gust of wind.
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In Paris and in the departments of the inner suburbs, firefighters have carried out more than 300 interventions since the first gusts of wind on Sunday morning, mainly for the fall of poorly secured objects or branches. In the Great East, in addition to the clearing of many trees lying on the roadways, the firefighters, who intervened hundreds of times, reported flying roofs as well as fallen power lines, but no injuries.
The storm still deprived 130,000 homes of electricity Monday morning February 10, also causing multiple cancellations or delays of trains as well as disruption of air traffic at the airports of Basel-Mulhouse and Strasbourg. According to Enedis, manager of the electricity distribution network, the regions most affected by the cuts are Brittany, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Ile-de-France and the Center.
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Our partner The weather channel kept on Monday morning about fifteen departments in orange alert, mainly in the East and the coasts of the north.
For Météo France, 26 departments are still on the alert.
Disturbed transport
Train traffic is "severely disrupted" with delayed TGVs, many TER trains removed and lines interrupted by falling trees on the tracks. It is also in Normandy, where several small SNCF lines (Rouen-Dieppe, Lisieux-Trouville-Deauville, Caen-Le Mans-Tours ...) are cut and replacement buses chartered.
In the air, some fifty flights were canceled or delayed at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly, as well as several flights to Caen, Lille or Brest, affecting thousands of passengers, when that of Beauvais suspended all traffic until '' at 07:00 Monday morning. At Basel-Mulhouse airport, 17 flights are also canceled on Monday. Cancellations are also planned at Strasbourg airport.
The wind was to start to weaken at the start of the morning in the north of France but to gradually strengthen in the Alps as well as in Corsica where the gusts should reach nearly 200 km / h at the strongest in the night from Monday to Tuesday. The coastline is the subject of a “waves-submersion” alert from the Loire estuary to the beaches of the North, the high tidal coefficients increasing the risk.