The wind caused further damage.

Regional trains were again disrupted in the north of France on Monday, after the passage of storm Franklin, the second in forty-eight hours, and, in the morning, 16,000 homes remained without electricity, some of them since Friday, indicated the SNCF and Enedis.

Storm Franklin caused new strong winds on Sunday evening, reaching 120 km / h in the interior and 140 km / h on the coast, according to Météo-France, after winds of a force comparable to storm Eunice, Friday.

One thousand Enedis agents mobilized

It was in the Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais sector, as well as in the Lille region, that power outages remained the most numerous.

The electricity distribution network manager Enedis announced that it had mobilized 1,000 agents "with priority given to customers already hit by Eunice" on Friday.

He hopes to succeed in "resupplying almost all homes without electricity by the end of the day", despite a new gale announced for Monday.

Firefighters intervened nearly 300 times in Pas-de-Calais overnight from Sunday to Monday, most of the time for falling materials and electrical cables.

Lumberjacks on the trains

The first TERs circulated without passengers on Monday morning, some carrying loggers to clear the tracks obstructed by trees.

The main lines were functional again at 10 a.m., SNCF told AFP, adding that only a few lines with less traffic were still being checked.

Storm Franklin once again uprooted towering trees in Lille on Sunday evening.

According to

La Voix du Nord

, a motorist narrowly escaped a serious accident.


The firefighters of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and the Somme, departments placed in orange vigilance, did not deplore any new injuries during the night from Monday to Sunday.

On the other hand, in the Channel, placed in yellow vigilance, a couple of septuagenarians died drowned Sunday evening in their car which was carried away by the waves on a submersible road at high tide, in Bricqueville-sur-Mer.

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