41 departments on Orange alert for thunderstorms

Bad Weather: Violent Thunderstorms Hit the Great Ouest, Floods and Tornado in Normandy

WEATHER REPORT: Roads cut, floods, damage, power cuts… Some French people have had to deal with the consequences of storms The violent storms which hit the west and the centre of France on Sunday afternoon particularly affected Seine-Maritime, notably causing floods and a “tornadic episode”, we learned from concordant sources. According to the Seine-Maritime prefecture, firefighters […]

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Power cut in Ile-de-France due to short circuit

Giant Power Outage in Ile-de-France after a Short Circuit

On Wednesday 27th November 2019, thousands of homes in Ile-de-France were impacted by a power cut around 10pm. A short circuit would be the cause of the failure. Day – night, day – night. This is what happened in Ile-de-France for two to three minutes, this Wednesday 27th November 2019, around 10pm. The region was impacted by a giant power […]

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Heavy storm on Nantes around 14:30 on Monday

Nantes: A Storm Plunges the City into the Dark for a Few Minutes

There were disturbances on the tram and train lines in Nantes due to a storm The Loire-Atlantique was in a yellow alert on Monday. However, around 2.30pm, “a stormy band quickly passed for example on the city of Nantes, explains Jean-Luc Le Pape of Meteo-France . There were flashes strong enough. ” And intense rainfall. “About 15 mm in one hour, and especially […]

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A giant power outage has affected 65,000 customers, in Toulouse, Sunday, October 28, 2018.

Why Downtown Toulouse was Hit by a Giant Blackout, Sunday Noon

Sunday 28th October, 2018, at 12.19pm, a giant power cut occurred in downtown Toulouse. 65,000 customers were deprived of electricity! The details. The incident happened at exactly 12:19 pm A transformer station located at the top of aisles Jean-Jaurès , in downtown Toulouse, suddenly stopped working, Sunday, October 28, 2018. 65,000 private customers The failure of the 225,000-volt transformer caused a […]

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20,000 homes were without power this morning around 10.40am in Quimper (Finistère).

Quimper: 20,000 Homes Without Power for 3 Minutes

Your TV jumped? Wednesday morning, around 10 am 40, 20 000 households were affected by a power cut, the courthouse, part of the city center and the Moulin Vert neighborhood. A rare incident. ERDF provides an explanation. Wednesday morning, around 10.40 am, Quimper (Finistere) was hit by a general power cut. The latter lasted three minutes […]

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