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136,000 households without electricity in Nouvelle Aquitaine due to thunderstorms

Thunderstorms: 136,000 Households Still Without Electricity in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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Nouvelle-Aquitaine is badly hit after successive thunderstorms. In Dordorgne, Lot-et-Garonne or Gironde, thousands of homes are without electricity. Some 136,000 homes were still without electricity Thursday morning in Nouvelle- Aquitaine, especially in the Dordogne , after heavy thunderstorms, said the manager of the electricity distribution network, Enedis. “We still have no less than 95,000 customers cut in the Dordogne (75,000), Lot-et-Garonne (8,000), Gironde (12,000), Corrèze (26,000), Haute-Vienne (12,000) and Poitou-Charentes (3000), […]

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Five departments on Orange Alert for Thunderstorms and Floods

Thunderstorms and Floods Continue: Five Departments on Orange Alert

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The Eure and Poitou-Charentes are still on orange alert this Wednesday morning, due to risk of flood after the storms of Tuesday that have made a death in Normandy. Storms and floods continued that night to sweep a part of France already affected for several days by rains that have made a death in the Eure , and […]

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Wine consumption is highest in Loire and Poitou-Charentes in France

Wine: The Loire and Poitou-Charentes Top Consumer in France

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Most litres consumed annually per capita … According to a study by Bonial, the top wine consumers (all typesof wine) are the inhabitants of the Pays de la Loire and Poitou-Charentes.  With 21,60 Litres per person per year, they are ahead of the people of Brittany and the Northwest, which consumes 19,20 litres and Central West at 17,52 […]

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