Europe 1 with AFP 4:26 p.m., February 26, 2024
Due to the violent winds blowing across part of the country, around 20,000 Breton homes, including 10,000 in Ille-et-Vilaine, were deprived of electricity Monday afternoon following a gust of wind which also disrupted the rail traffic, announced Enedis and SNCF.
Around 20,000 Breton homes, including 10,000 in Ille-et-Vilaine, were without electricity Monday afternoon following a gust of wind which also disrupted rail traffic, announced Enedis and the SNCF.
“Brittany continues to be exposed to significant winds and the depression is now evacuating towards the east of the region, including Ille-et-Vilaine,” Enedis said in a press release sent to AFP.
Breton rail transport also impacted
Around 2:30 p.m., around 10,000 homes in Ile-et-Vilaine, 5,000 in Morbihan and 2,500 in Finistère and Cotes d'Armor found themselves without electricity.
There are "700 technicians who are currently working in the field in order to be able to restore our customers as quickly as possible (including 150 employees of service providers)", continues the network manager.
The weather conditions also disrupted Breton rail transport.
On the Guingamp/Saint-Brieuc axis, six TER trains were canceled due in particular to falling trees on the tracks and six TGV trains, on the Rennes-Brest axis, suffered “significant delays”, according to the communication. regional SNCF, with a return to normal expected in the middle of the afternoon.