The five departments of Normandy are still on orange snow and ice alert on Friday, November 22, all day. Trains, school transport, heavy goods vehicle traffic… traffic is gradually resuming but remains difficult in certain places. We take stock.
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Storm Caetano violently hit Normandy. Several centimeters of snow more or less fell in the five departments on Thursday November 21, 2024.
Orne, Calvados, Manche, Eure and Seine-Maritime remain on orange snow and ice alert this Friday, November 22. Disruptions on the roads and rails, practical information… here's what you need to know.
The SNCF had announced that the Train circulation was suspended on all Normandy lines (Nomad) this Friday, November 22 morning. “A snowy episode accompanied by strong gusts of wind caused damage to our lines.”
At midday, Paris – Rouen connections; Rouen – Dieppe; Le Havre – Bréauté – Fécamp are operational again. Traffic has gradually resumed between Rouen and Le Havre since 1 p.m.
Other lines remain interrupted all day and will not resume until Saturday. All the information below and by clicking on this link:
Already the day before, many trains had been canceled due to a strike to which were added the weather conditions.
The Normandy region announced the shutdown of all lines of the NOMAD Car network (school and commercial), Thursday November 21, in the departments of Orne, Manche, Calvados and Eure.
This Friday, the suspension was maintained until at least 12 p.m. The lines have gradually resumed in Eure and Seine-Maritime since 2 p.m. “The suspension is maintained in the departments of Manche, Orne and Calvadosthe state of the secondary network does not allow a resumption of service.”
At the end of the morning, the Seine-Maritime prefecture indicated that the ban on school buses was lifted from noon for “allow interns to return home for the weekend.”
In Seine-Mairitime, the Astuce network school lines will also not run this Friday (lines numbered 100, 200 and 300) as well as lines 526, 529 and 530 and the Filor lines. Disruptions to be expected on the rest of the network.
In the five departments, a prefectural decree had prohibited all circulation of trucks weighing more than 7.5 tonnes. “until further notice”. The Seine-Maritime prefecture indicated that the ban was lifted this Friday noon. However, it remains maintained in Eure.
In the Eure, 700 trucks were stored on the A28, the N154, the N12 and in Écouis on the RD 6014. Patrols from Civil Protection and the Red Cross were engaged in the evening to resupply and transport assistance as needed to drivers.
Indeed, further snowfall was expected overnight which made the roads slippery.
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In Calvados, 35 volunteers from approved civil security associations went to meet truck drivers parked in storage areas and distribute hot drinks.
In the Some : firefighters have intervened five times since this morning for car accidents linked to snow, including two on the A84.
In Seine-Maritimethe firefighters took stock of the night on various interventions:
- Natural disasters (falling trees, etc.): 10
- Public road clearance: 11
- Assistance to people (VP falls, etc.): 9
- Animal assistance: 3
- Assistance on railway tracks: 1
- Recognition of EPHAD and center for the disabled in Vaal de Saane: 1
- Accident de circulation : 1
- Saint Aubin de Celloville transformer fire: 1
That is 37 interventions combined in total.
In the Calvadosmore than 50 firefighters were involved in interventions on Thursday, November 21, “mainly minor road accidents and people stuck in their vehicles”specifies the prefecture.
Agents from the interdepartmental roads directorate (DIRNO), the departmental council and the communities mobilized all night to clear the roads, allowing an improvement in traffic conditions on the network this morning.
In Orne,Traffic was interrupted for several hours on the A28 motorway near Gacé. Many motorists were stuck for more than 10 hours, among trucks, on the tracks.
For several hours, motorists and trucks remained stuck on the A28, in Orne, near Gacé.
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“The situation was resolved around midnight on both directions of traffic. The cars were able to get back on the road at low speed (10km/h) little by little. The highway was still quite snowy during the night with a little of ice due to low temperatures Most of the trucks had to remain on the bottom.tells us one of our journalists stuck there.
