The wind has died down
Phew! Here it is finally, the calm after the storm. The wind has died down in the Rhône, which is finding a certain serenity this evening. But those who set foot outside will remember for a moment this day dehorning the oxen. Come on, let's rewind.
Remember, the department was placed on orange alert this Monday; We were therefore expecting violent gusts. Well, there was no shortage of it: one of them even reached 142 km/h at the Parilly racecourse. A record. Falling trees, accidents, cut tracks, diverted planes, trams and TER trains stopped, homes deprived of electricity by the thousands… The winds spared nothing and no one – even if no casualties were reported, very much Fortunately.
On the roads, it was a bit of chaos. Traffic was disrupted for many hours on the main roads in the area, with dozens of kilometers of traffic jams. And the accident of a heavy goods vehicle, near Givors, this morning, did not help matters on the A47. A figure that says a lot about this Dantesque episode: this Monday, the Rhône firefighters carried out more than 300 interventions.
