Monday, December 22, 2008

At the center and south of France hit by cyclone - no light left about 100 thousand families

The number of French families who lost their light because of heavy snow, reached 100 thousand, the French broadcast media, with reference to the communiqué of the French electricity network ERDF.

Strong gusts of wind and snow has damaged the electricity network in the departments located in the Massif Central (mountain range in central and southern France): Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Corrèze, Aveyron and Lozère.

Power promised to restore the supply of electricity to the greatest fast as possible and to use for the many human and material resources. "

In the works involved two hundred people and several helicopters, with the assistance of local experts arrived colleagues from neighboring departments. As the ERDF, snow impede technological teams get to the site of the accident.

In addition, some sites in the departments of Aveyron and Ero on Sunday halted the movement of trains, disruptions in rail traffic will continue on Monday. According to meteorologists, snow only tomorrow afternoon, reports .

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