Enedis technicians were hard at work all weekend in Brittany.

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Loïc Venance / AFP

After the passage of the storm Alex, Brittany is done with the blackouts.

The operator of the electricity distribution network Enedis announced a return to normal on Sunday around 8 p.m. in the region.

"Thanks to a large-scale mobilization across the whole of the territory, and particularly in Morbihan, which was very affected by the storm, Enedis announces a return to normal on the Breton electricity network," said Enedis in a press release.

At the height of the storm, nearly 120.00 homes were deprived of power during the night from Thursday to Friday in Brittany.

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The Côtes-d'Armor firefighters were also in great demand over the weekend with more than 840 interventions related to bad weather, particularly in the sectors of Paimpol and Saint-Brieuc.

No serious injuries are to be reported.

Downpours fell on Saint-Brieuc

Météo-France had lifted the orange rain flooding vigilance in the department on Sunday morning.

"For the whole of the Alex episode, the accumulations of rain between Thursday evening and Saturday evening are exceptional, around 150 mm on the north-west of the Côtes d'Armor, and often more than 100 mm elsewhere", indicated Météo-France in a press release.

It rained 151 mm of water in Saint-Brieuc while the monthly average for the month of October is 82 mm.

In neighboring Finistère, "since the start of the storm, firefighters have intervened 394 times, in particular for threats of falling trees, electric cables or materials," said the prefecture in a statement.

This meteorological episode made a victim, "a young man who died in Brest on Friday who was riding a scooter and on whom a tree branch fell", according to the same source.

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