“We are in the process of being resolved” problems, “the majority of our lines are starting to function normally again”, assured Franceinfo Thursday, October 21 Antoine Debièvre, spokesperson for the SNCF, while many railway lines were interrupted or severely slowed down due to strong winds, falling trees and objects on the tracks and catenaries, caused by the Aurora storm. In total, the SNCF has “mobilized a thousand agents” supposed to be “several hundred incidents”.
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From 9 hours, there is no longer any department on orange vigilance for strong winds. But material damage was noted due to the passage of storm Aurora in Brittany, in the North and in the Paris region, reported the France Bleu network.
#Weather report #Brittany # StormAurora 3 intense windy phenomena (probable tornadoes) observed this Wednesday on the sidelines of the storm:
Plozévet (29) at 5:20 p.m.
Riec-sur-Bélon (29) at 5.30 p.m.
Kernascléden (56) at 5.45 p.m.
Material damage is to be deplored.
@West France pic.twitter.com/gGPLOvcK67– Stéven Tual (@StevenTual_off) October 20, 2021
In total, 17 000 homes remained without electricity at 10 p.m., in the north and north-west of France, according to a provisional report from Enedis. Enedis claims that 4,000 technicians and employees of service providers are deployed in the field to restore the affected households as quickly as possible.
As a result of these bad weather, there were 783 kilometers of traffic jams nationwide, an episode qualified as“exceptional” by Sytadin and Bison Futé. Usually, there are 549 at the same time. A peak of 1,263.3 kilometers of traffic jams nationwide was noted at 8:30 am by Bison futé.
In Normandy, traffic resumed very gradually at the end of the afternoon, in particular on the Paris-Rouen-Le Havre and Paris-Granville lines, but disruptions remained. In addition, difficulties were still present on intra-regional lines, in particular between Caen and Tours, Rouen-Caen and Rouen-Dieppe. In question, the violence of the winds brought down “a great number of trees and branches”, but also “tarpaulins and even a trampoline” on the tracks and overhead lines.
[ TEMPÊTE AURORE ⛈ ] Trees fell on the tracks in the area of #Haven and of # Embellished.
Our teams are mobilized to allow a return to normalcy as quickly as possible.
Here are some pictures
https://t.co/y3E6NILA3i pic.twitter.com/s3P4DRFwwc– SNCF NOMAD TRAIN (@train_nomad) October 21, 2021
Météo-France recorded 175 km / h in Fécamp (Seine-Maritime), 143 km / h in Granville (Manche). In Normandy, for example, 14,000 homes are still without electricity at midday. They were 80,000 at the end of the night.
At 9:30 am, there were 375 kilometers of traffic jams in Ile-de-France according to Sytadin and Bison Futé. Usually, there are 273 kilometers of traffic jams in the region at the same time. A peak of 478 kilometers was detected at 8:30 a.m., according to Sytadin.
On the rails, the situation is improving in Île-de-France, where the circulation of the RER A, C and D is greatly slowed down, but has resumed on many lines. It remains interrupted between Corbeil-Essonnes and Melun, until 3 p.m., on the RER D, and until 2 p.m. in the direction of Creil, still on the RER D, where trains do not stop at several stations. . No more bad weather incidents are reported on the RER B and E trains.
In Versailles, “a tree 20 meters high” fell on the tracks. SNCF agents were unable to cut it, and had to resort to a private logging company.
On the Transilien side, traffic is back to normal, except on lines H and K, where traffic is running is interrupted between Crépy-en-Valois and Mitry – Claye. The recovery is estimated around 4 p.m.
❌ Traffic Info #LigneH
Traffic is interrupted between Pontoise and Ermont – Eaubonne until 4:00 pm; between Valmondois and Creil until 2 p.m. and slowed down considerably between Paris / Persan via Montsoult.
A tree blocks the way between Persan and Creil.https: //t.co/o6ncjOQyJo pic.twitter.com/RCLMau45RK
– Line H (@LigneH_SNCF) October 21, 2021
On arrival and departure from Paris, TER traffic is very severely disrupted, the SNCF TER network said on Twitter. Christophe Najdovski, deputy mayor of Paris, specifies on Twitter that there were about forty tree falls in the capital during the night from Wednesday to Thursday.
At noon, train traffic remained interrupted between Strasbourg and Metz, and confused between Strasbourg and Nancy. Trains on the Strasbourg-Lauterbourg line recirculate only to Strasbourg after a tree falls on the track near Hoenheim. A wind record, at 170 km / h, was recorded at Markstein (Haut-Rhin).
12:20 – Update on the situation:
The track being clear, the resumption of circulation is carried out gradually. Some residual delays are to be expected.
Contact us, or consult the Assistant SNCF application for any information. ℹ️ https://t.co/4bt6HBMxar
– TER Grand Est (@TERGrandEst) October 21, 2021
TER circulation resumes very gradually since 11:45 am in Lorraine. Many deletions are still to be expected, SNCF said on its website. In Lorraine, 28,000 were without electricity this morning.
Traffic is also gradually resuming “on part of the lines” of Champagne-Ardenne. “All SNCF teams are mobilized for a return to normalcy as soon as possible once the tracks are cleared”, continues the SNCF.
No injuries, but extensive damage after the passage of storm Aurore in the Marne and the Ardennes.
➡️ https://t.co/xt3BP8bMeT pic.twitter.com/ITgS2EHabC– France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne (@fbleuchampagne) October 21, 2021
The firefighters intervened on 30 occasions, mainly for falling objects including the fall of the roof of a ten-storey building on five vehicles in Châlons-en-Champagne, reports France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne.
The National Police intervened about 30 times, while their colleagues from the National Gendarmerie intervened 40 times. Teams from the Marne Departmental Council have carried out more than 50 interventions on the roads. At 12 noon, nearly 4,000 homes remained without electricity in 44 municipalities and at the height of this meteorological episode (at 6 am), there were 5,600.
In the Loiret, at least 8,000 homes are deprived of electricity this Thursday morning. A hundred interventions were recorded during the night from Wednesday to Thursday for fallen trees and lying electricity poles. The wind blew at 108 km / h in Orléans on Wednesday evening around 10 p.m., Météo France reported.
[Direct] This Thursday around 12:30 am, the squall line shifts to the E of #Center. It caused strong gusts, as here in Céré-la-Ronde (#IndreEtLoire). At 0h, we recorded 98 km / h # Chateauroux & 104 Aubigny / Nère ↘️ https://t.co/FxCEZN1j0E. Video: AL Moreau. #tempeteAurora pic.twitter.com/yAa3fTiHvI
– Weather Center Association (@AssoMeteoCentre) October 20, 2021
SNCF traffic resumed at 7:30 am in the direction Orléans-Paris, SNCF announced to France Bleu Orléans.
In Indre-et-Loire, 7,000 homes were still without electricity this Thursday morning. At the height of the storm, 18,000 homes were left without power. The department’s firefighters intervened more than 120 times during the night.
In the Indre, up to 3,000 homes were deprived of electricity, and the department’s firefighters intervened about thirty times for branches and trees that had fallen on the road or on power lines.
In Brittany, damage was also recorded on the SNCF lines with branches on the tracks which caused the removal of the first trains this morning on St Brieuc / Rennes, Quimper-Lorient and Rennes-St Malo, but at 9 a.m. traffic was resuming according to France Bleu.
Wednesday afternoon, a mini-tornado was recorded in Plozévet, a town located about thirty kilometers west of Quimper, in Finistère. Winds of up to 140 km / h were recorded, causing trees to fall. An uninhabited house was destroyed, the roof of the town hall collapsed. The mayor, Gilles Kérézéon, says he experienced gales but “never such brutality”. In Landerneau, also in Finistère, the docks and shops were flooded.
In the #tempeteAurora To #Landerneau pic.twitter.com/XL8QK8dg9F
– ☰Rominouzh☰ (@Rodmarrig) October 20, 2021
In Morbihan, between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, the prefecture recorded 100 interventions in 61 municipalities. 90 trees and seven important objects fell on the roads. 194 firefighters were mobilized. The Ille-et-Vilaine firefighters intervened 82 times for trees on the roadway and torn electric wires but no injuries were to be deplored.
In the Hauts-de-France, Antoine Debièvre, SNCF spokesperson, affirm that “what was interrupted was able to resume gradually”. But the Paris-Laon line remains interrupted according to the SNCF site, where traffic should resume around 4 p.m. The line linking Beauvais to Creil will remain interrupted all day long, the time to clear all the fallen trees on the track.