Relive the day and evening on Friday.
Three departments of the West of France - Brittany, Loire-Atlantique, Morbihan, were always placed in amber alert "wave-submersion," published at 4:15 by Météo-France newsletter which recorded the night winds to 150 km / h at the tip of Brittany. The end of the event for these three departments is planned for this Saturday at 10:00.
One dead and one injured in a boat
An octogenarian died Friday aboard a ship sailing off the UK after a fall caused by bad weather hitting the Northwest paysUne woman on board the same ship was evacuated by helicopter to the also result from a fall, said the maritime prefecture of the Atlantic.
Winds
In the night "maximum values recorded during the stormy episode were of the order of 140 to 150 km / h to the point of Brittany and from 130 to 135 km / h north of Brest-Morlaix line, the part of the Finistère to the south of this line, had values between 102 and 110 km / h ", according to Météo France.
The strong wind began to blow in the day, was plunged into darkness nearly 100,000 homes in Britain , according to Electricité Réseau Distribution France (ERDF). Some 50 000 households were affected at 19.30 in Finistère, 40,000 in the Côtes d'Armor, Morbihan in 4000 and 1000 in Ille-et-Vilaine.
Interrupted rail traffic
The rail traffic between Rennes and Brest was interrupted , according to SNCF, which has been estimated at some 2,000 the number of travelers affected by this precautionary measure. In addition, almost all flights were canceled at airports in Brest, Lorient and Quimper. In Finistère, particularly affected, firefighters had led in the early evening over 500 interventions, mainly due to falling trees.
The maritime prefecture of the Atlantic reported the loss of 70 containers off Brittany by a ship of the Danish company Maersk.
"Looks like there is no end"
There was early evening 40 cm of water on the banks of Quimper, in the prefecture of Finistère, and light spills in Morlaix and Landerneau. In addition, many roads have been cut off due to flooding. A Brest he fell from 15 December 636 mm of rain, a record, according to Météo France.
Winds, downpours, hail, waves, floods, power outages, damage along the coast: in Finistère, particularly affected, weather leave no respite to the people from the beginning of winter.
"We can not get out of bad weather, it upsets the life," testified Lescoat Michele, a resident of Quimper, where floods Laïta succeed. "Looks like there is no end" noted the sixties, recently stayed several days without heating or hot water because of repeated flooding.
"We had a succession of disturbances since the beginning of winter with a little stormy episodes," admits Nathan Frederick, forecaster at Météo-France, highlighting the intensity of "Ulla", the current disruption. "We have here on the tip of Brittany, the highest since the beginning of the winter storm, "he says, before announcing next week a" respit
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