Vendee:Whats happened?

[Frederick]

How come 40,000 homes in the Vendee are  without electricity ? is there a lot of storm damage or what ?....or was it a power outage caused elsewhere ?  

[Clair]

[quote user="Frederick"]How come 40,000 homes in the Vendee are  without electricity ? is there a lot of storm damage or what ?....or was it a power outage caused elsewhere ?  [/quote]

Can't be bothered to translate the whole article [:)], so here is the link:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20061208.WWW000000236_tempete_foyers_sans_electricite_en_vendee.html

[Benjamin]

If you go to www.inthevendee.com you'll find an Expatica report in English although there's no actual mention of the 40,000 figure.

We live about 20kms in from the coast and although it's been very windy we had much stronger gusts about three weeks ago.

[cooperlola]

Not just the Vendee.  Our power has been on and off all day. Extremely annoyed as I missed the racing - and it was Cheltenham.  Boo hoo.

[Frederick]

Thank you for the link Clair......L.Aguillon sur Mer  mentioned on the report is only 4K from my place and they have been pumped out  so its been a bit rough in that neck of the woods.....Its so flat I can imagine the power  and phone poles that lean over anyway must have gone down with the winds ....I have asked a pal to pop round and check out the house  but as I am on a bit of a hill cant see flooding   like the poor folk of L,Aguiullon being a problem ...