Enedis indicates that in Limousin, nearly 14,000 homes have been without electricity since this Thursday morning (according to the latest regional update at 4 p.m.): around 8,000 homes in Haute-Vienne, especially in the north of the department, 5,000 in Creuse, and 1,000 in Corrèze. Teams are mobilized to restore the lines, heavily affected in places by gusts of wind.
Numerous trees lying on the roads were reported to the authorities this Thursday afternoon: Meuzac, south of Haute-Vienne, Condat-sur-Vienne, on the A20 also near Aquapolis in the direction Toulouse – Paris. Some trees are temporarily blocking traffic in certain places and the gendarmerie is calling for vigilance. The firefighters carried out around thirty interventions this Thursday before 6 p.m., some for trees that had fallen on houses, such as in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Ambazac or Coussac-Bonneval.
No injuries were reported, according to emergency services.
Rail traffic is not left out. Storm Caetano and snowfall in Paris disrupted the Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse line. SNCF Réseau had decided to carry out a “traffic stop” from this Wednesday, November 20, “that is to say the preventive stopping of rail traffic to avoid engaging too many trains in the middle of the disruptions at the risk of seeing them being stuck with passengers on board”, on many lines. This Thursday, all Paris – Limoges trains were canceled due to “climatic hazards which have evolved and which do not allow us to run commercial trains”, assures the SNCF.
The first trains scheduled for this Friday, November 22 from Limoges to Poitiers (departure at 5 a.m.) and Paris (departures at 5:04 a.m. and 5:31 a.m.) have been canceled.
Thibaut Dailer
