nearly 10,000 homes without electricity in Maine-et-Loire

This Thursday, November 21, 9,500 homes were without electricity in the department at the start of the evening, due to the Caetano storm.

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Although it did not cause any casualties, storm Caetano caused a lot of damage as it passed through Maine-et-Loire this Thursday, November 21. And plunged many residents into darkness although the gusts began to weaken around 7 p.m. Around 7:30 p.m., Enedis counted precisely 9,500 homes without electricity in around fifty municipalities. The most affected are Maulévrier, Yzernay, Montrevault-sur-Èvre and Chemillé-en-Anjou, with nearly 4,000 customers impacted, or almost 50%. “ We had peaks of up to 110 km/h in Choletais, in the southern part of the department indicates Enedis, mobilized last night .

Around a hundred agents on the ground

Nearly a hundred agents are on the ground until 9 p.m.-10 p.m. to try to repair it as quickly as possible. We are looking for faults. Branches, trees fell on the lines specifies the electricity distributor, whose teams will be back on war footing tomorrow at dawn . The time frame for restoring electricity to homes remains uncertain. We may have to replant concrete posts. In terms of vision, the majority of customers will be repowered by the end of the afternoon estimates Enedis.