Guillaume Dominguez, edited by Yanis Darras with AFP 11:23 a.m., April 9, 2022, modified at 11:27 a.m., April 9, 2022
Storm Diego, which crossed France on Friday, disrupts the start of school holidays.
Despite the damage, restaurateurs located on the Atlantic coast want to quickly welcome tourists.
In the rest of the country, 30,000 homes are still without electricity.
Barely started for zone B, the Easter holidays have already been very disrupted by the arrival of storm Diego.
Wind gusts over 100 km / h were noted this Friday, along the Atlantic coast.
Strong winds that caused trees to fall on the railway tracks, thus disrupting TGV and TER traffic.
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If the storm was announced by Météo France for a few days, its violence surprised certain merchants by the sea in the town of Bois-Plage-en-Ré, on the island of Ré in Charente-Maritime.
"We tidied up, stacked the chairs, dismantled some parts of the terrace and we had to dismantle the umbrellas because they broke," explains Sandrine Janin, director of the "Beach Bar" restaurant.
Despite some damage, the restaurateurs want to welcome the first holidaymakers as quickly as possible, adds the director: "We are thinking of putting everything back together because the weather forecast announces good weather. We hope to be able to welcome the first tourists".
30,000 homes still without electricity
About 30,000 homes were still without electricity, mainly in New Aquitaine and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, after the passage of storm Diego, network manager Enedis announced on Saturday.
"Following the passage of storm Diego, nearly 30,000 customers are still without electricity, particularly in New Aquitaine, around the Gironde estuary, and in Auvergne", indicated Enedis in a point on the state of the power grid at 8:30 a.m.
According to the company, "more than 1,000 technicians from Enedis and partner companies are on the ground to carry out the necessary diagnoses and resupply the customers concerned as quickly as possible".
No more departments on orange vigilance
Orange vigilance for "violent winds" which concerned three departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (Puy-de-Dôme, Loire and Haute-Loire), was lifted on Saturday morning by Météo France, as for the neo-Aquitaine departments of Charente-Maritime, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres, which had come out of the alert on Friday evening.
The orange alert in Savoie for "high risk of avalanches in the high mountains" was also lifted on Saturday morning.