A few seconds were enough to cut down a strip of the pine forest of the town, Sunday, November 11 in the morning.
It was just midnight on the night of Saturday the 10th to Sunday the 11th of November, when the tornado struck the district of Hautière in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins. "Like a big whistle, a bomb, then nothing," comments this resident. "Like a jet engine," says Didier Cornic whose car was disemboweled and had to spend the night at the hotel after being evacuated.
Dozens of pine trees have been beheaded in a big furrow, from the seaside to the blue road, the axis Saint-Nazaire-Pornic along the coast of the Pays de Retz. Mayor Yannick Morez decided to close the school as a precaution. An 87 year old lady was hospitalized, not injured, but very shocked after her roof was literally pierced by a tree.
In this wooded area, the pruners were hard at work to avoid any new falls of branches sometimes in balance, while agents Enedis had to check the operation of power lines. Many cuts enamelled the day the time of the yard.