Storm Ciara is devastating. Since Sunday, high winds require the intervention of firefighters. Forty-two departments are on alert orange for strong winds, from the tip of Finistère to Alsace with vague flooding alerts from the Loire estuary to the northern beaches. In the Vosges, gusts reached 160 km / h on the ridges, causing a lot of damage. In Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, in the Vosges, the roof of one of the city's schools was torn off. At the microphone of Europe 1, the mayor, David Valence, says: "It took place at the beginning of the evening, a little after 8 p.m., a very violent gust of wind which swept away the roof of one of the eleven schools of the town, a school that is both elementary and kindergarten. The whole roof was immediately taken away. "
Classes cannot be provided in the establishment on Monday morning, said the mayor: "This will force us to warn parents that classes cannot be provided in the school and to set up provisional childcare facilities for parents who cannot keep their children or have them looked after by relatives. "
The storm will spread to Corsica
The Ciara storm caused many disruptions, particularly in transport: delays or cancellations of flights to Caen, Lille, Brest. In Beauvais, traffic is suspended until 7 a.m., around fifty flights have been canceled at Roissy and Orly. In Hauts-de-France, SNCF traffic is very seriously disrupted, with the exception of TGV connections with Paris and Lille.
Among the European neighbors also the storm causes many difficulties. In western Germany, main line traffic had to be completely interrupted. British airports have been severely disrupted.
Finally, the speed record was broken for a commercial flight from New York to London by a British Airways Boeing which took 4.56 hours to reach its destination, pushed by the winds, instead of 6 hours in normal times.
The storm is expected in Corsica this Monday. The winds will reach 200 km / h according to weather France, in the night from Monday to Tuesday.