2024-08-01 18:52:50
This is still only an estimate, but at least fifty shops and businesses were affected by the storms that occurred on Wednesday July 31, 2024 in the west of the department of Eure, according to the region. If, this Thursday, August 1, the firefighters of the fire and rescue service of the department (SDIS) finish the last recommendations, many companies are closed at this time of the year and may not said damages.
“The power of yesterday’s storms is unique in the agglomeration of Évreux, but we are not in an unusual event at this time of the year”, in the background on Wednesday in Lieutenant-Colonel Aymeric Binninger, from SDIS 27.
The gutted Schneider Electric factory
Above all large amounts of rain, 33 mm in less than an hour, which caused damage, creating an accumulation of water heavy enough to damage the roofs. The Schneider Electric company in Évreux paid the price. Gutted, the building could not accommodate some 350 workers of the site, who found themselves unemployed, unable to continue production.
The Eure region promises to support communities and businesses. “Wednesday evening, the manager of the company Schneider Electric expressed his desire to apply for a partial unemployment program, the State will support him in this way,” confirmed the prefect of Eure, Simon Babre.
We send a technical document to the communities to identify the affected buildings and facilitate procedures for the possible identification of the natural disaster situation.
On the road side, all the roads that were closed on Wednesday have been reopened, except for the Boulevard des Cités-Unies, in Évreux, where pieces of tar were carried away by the water flow, and in a few streets in the city center. , where the floodgates were blown. Of the 6,500 homes without electricity on Thursday, a thousand remained without power at midday on Thursday, August 1, including a hundred in Évreux.
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