Heavy snowfall causes chaos in Eastern France.

Posted on December 29, 2014 by bill

Pagaille en Savoie : qui est responsable ?
Shambles in the Savoie: Who is responsible?

Les pouvoirs publics pointés du doigt après la pagaille en Savoie
La situation revient progressivement à la normale après un week-end de pagaille sur les routes de Savoie où des milliers de voitures ont été bloquées.
The public are pointing the finger (of responsibility) after the shambles in the Savoie (Alps). The situation is slowly returning to normal after a weekend of shambles on the roads of the Savoie where thousands of cars were blocked by snow.
 
 Isabelle Vallon aime ça.

Première neige dans le canton, le samedi 27 décembre.
Photo: Gérald Bosshard.

The first snows in the canton of Chablais, Saturday 27th December.

 

Première neige dans le canton, le samedi 27 décembre.<br /><br /> Photo: Gérald Bosshard</p><br /> <p>http://www.24heures.ch//vaud-regions/riviera-chablais/galeries.html?id=175762
 

15.000 personnes ont dû abandonner leurs voyages vers les pistes samedi soir pour rejoindre des centres d’hébergement d’urgence. © MaxPPP. 15,000 people had to abandon their trips towards the ski slopes on Saturday evening and seek emergency overnight accomodation.

Il n’y a plus de départements placés en alerte orange neige et verglas ce dimanche. La circulation reste compliquée vers la montée aux pistes des Alpes.

No further departments were placed on orange snow and ice alert on Sunday. The roads remain complicated towards the Alps slopes. 

Après une nuit chaotique où de nombreux automobilistes sont restés coincés dans leurs véhicules ou ont dû trouvé refuge dans des centres d’hébergements d’urgence, la circulation est toujours très difficile voire impossible. La tendance est néanmoins à l’accalmie, l’alerte orange a été levée sur l’ensemble du territoire. Les chaînes pour les pneus sont obligatoires pour pouvoir continuer leur route.

After a chaotic night where many motorists remained cornered in their cars and were forced to seek emergency accommodation, the traffic is still very difficult if not impossible. The situation is none the less becoming more calm. The orange alert is lifted over the wider area. Tyre chains are absolutely necessary to continue to drive on their journey.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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