Storm Gérard claimed its first death. A sixty-something motorist died Monday in the Gironde department after hitting a fallen tree overnight. A fall “probably” caused by winds linked to the winter depression which affected a large quarter of northwestern France, firefighters said.
The latter were called this Monday morning around 7 a.m. for an intervention in the town of Saint-Mariens, located north of Bordeaux. A road accident had been reported to them. They found a deceased 62-year-old man in his car.
1,200 homes without electricity in Gironde
In the region, the winds linked to the depression called Gérard also led to power cuts for 2,500 homes, in Gironde (1,200), Dordogne (1,000) and Lot-et-Garonne (300), according to the manager of the Enedis Aquitaine Nord network.
Some 90,000 customers were without electricity Monday at 11 a.m., two-thirds of them in the west of the country, according to Enedis. According to the latest forecasts, storm Gérard has been losing intensity in the New Aquitaine region since Monday noon. But a new fairly virulent depression, called “Fien”, will bring new violent gusts of wind from Tuesday, up to 130 km / h locally, indicates La Chaîne Météo.