Tens of millimeters of rain in a few minutes. The Bergeracois sector, in Dordogne, was swept by a storm on Sunday May 5, late in the afternoon. The participants of the lottery, organized in the Mouleydier village hall, were in the front row. “There were quite a few power outages then a lot of wind and hail. I had the impression that the room was moving,” says Soline.
Under the tree is a car…
Anne-Marie Sopkowitz
La Périgordine adds: “A lady told us to get under the tables. The organizers didn’t want us to go out because of electrical wires in the water. » Once the storm passed, residents discovered the extent of the damage. “It was a mini-tornado,” breathes the mayor, Michel Delfieux. There are many trees on the ground. One of them even came across a car near the village hall. The situation is a little tense. »
Same story a few kilometers away, in the La Force sector. A torrent of muddy water submerged rue des Sapins
Jacques Boujou
Rue des Sapins, in La Force.
Firefighters intervened for more than fifty operations following the storm. Note that a tree fell on a power line in Cours-de-Pile: around 200 homes are without electricity.
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