Le Figaro Nice
During the night from Sunday to Monday, the main axis leading to the ski resorts of Isola 2000 and Auron (Alpes-Maritimes) was cut due to a landslide which, fortunately, did not occur. no injuries.
The consequence, undoubtedly, of the Mediterranean episode which affected the department the day before and during which 50 to 150 millimeters of water fell in a few hours, causing some landslides.
Firefighters were alerted around 4:30 a.m.
DR / Mylene Agnelli
Firefighters were alerted around 4:30 a.m.
On site, approximately three kilometers south of the village of Isola, they noted significant falls of trees and stones blocking RM 2205 from side to side.
The mayor of Nice and president of the Metropolis Christian Estrosi reacted at dawn, indicating that Threads had
“given instructions early this morning so that a geologist can immediately go to the site and make a diagnosis in order to allow the realization of all the necessary clearing work during the day.”
The technical services of the Metropolis were at work at the end of the morning to purge the road of some 100 cubic meters of uprooted trees and rock.
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70 centimeters of powder
As for the ski resorts, we are hardly surprised by the unfortunate indicator.
“It’s usually in the fall but it happens, we know it,”
notes Mylène Agnelli, the mayor of Isola.
If the latter can only sympathize with those who had planned to go up to the resort on Monday to treat themselves to a day of skiing, she is however delighted with the last heavy snowfalls brought by the Mediterranean episode.
“70 centimeters of powder fell at the summit, and 50 centimeters at the station!
A real treat for our vacationers, who also enjoy the blue sky
,” she explains.
Mostly Parisian tourists - first on vacation - who have visited the Maralpine resort for the week.
“We are almost full everywhere and we will tighten it in the following weeks with the arrival of other vacationers
,” continues the councilor.
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Reopening in the afternoon
A little before 2 p.m., the Metropolis announced by press release that after carrying out emergency works,
“the road will be able to reopen in the middle of the afternoon under alternating traffic lights.”
And to specify that
“
a geotechnical engineer will intervene tomorrow morning to specify the duration that the necessary reinforcement work will take.
This will make it possible to precisely determine the date of full reopening of RM2205.”