Passage of the storm Bella in Eure-et-Loir: 114 homes still without electricity, Sunday evening [mis à jour]

The passage of storm Bella, a strong depression that is currently affecting Europe, had less impact on Eure-et-Loir than other departments in the Center-Val de Loire region, such as Indre or Expensive.

Since the start of the phenomenon, on the night of Saturday 26 to Sunday 27 December 2020, the department’s firefighters have intervened about twenty times, for cut power lines, falling trees, flooding and covering operations. of roofs.

The breakage of certain lines led to power cuts in several communes of the department. This Sunday morning, more than 1,000 homes in Eure-et-Loir were without electricity, according to Enedis.

In a few hours, this number fell to 554, at 4 pm, then to 114, at 7.30 pm. Enedis technicians will continue interventions to restore the electric current in the affected areas until “late at night”. “We will then resume work on Monday” December 28, specifies the energy supplier, which expects a return to normal in the course of “the day of Monday”.

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Several municipalities were affected by these power cuts, mainly in the Eure valley and in Dunois. This is particularly the case with Maisons (up to 250 households without electricity), Aunay-sous-Auneau, La Chapelle-d’Aunainville, Cloyes-Les-Trois-Rivières, Yèvres and Villampuy.

An accident in Bonneval

Also in Dunois, in Bonneval, an Audi, which was circulating this Sunday around 2:40 p.m. on the RN 10, hit a fallen tree, at the corner of the D360. The four passengers, a 35-year-old man, a 31-year-old woman and two girls aged 4 and 11, were injured and transported to the Châteaudun hospital center for check-ups.

According to our sources, this accident is linked to heavy precipitation. The car would have gone on aquaplanning.

A canceled train in Dreux

In the Drouais, the damage from strong gusts of wind remains limited. The firefighters explain that they intervened above all for flying tiles, in particular in Boutigny-Prouais.

They also received calls for limited flooding in homes, “no more than ten centimeters of water in the worst case”, according to the Departmental Operational Center of Fire and Rescue (Codis).

The strong wind is at the origin of torn electric wires, causing very localized power cuts.

Commander Ihssane Gharbi, commander of the Dreux company, specifies: “There was no particular intervention by the gendarmes in the Drouais, not a single accident in particular. “

The consequences on traffic were limited to rail at the very beginning of the morning, with the cancellation of only one train: the Granville-Dreux which was to leave at 5:55 am (arrival at Dreux at 8:17 am). Trees fallen on the track, in the Normandy region, forced the SNCF to use a replacement bus.

“He arrived in Dreux about 1 hour after the usual train schedule”, specifies the SNCF communication department. The traffic then returned to normal. “The Granville-Dreux-Paris line was the least affected by strong winds, the sectors most affected were those of the Cherbourg-Caen and Caen-Rennes lines. “