Dans la Loire, deux personnes ont perdu la vie dans un accident de voiture en raison du verglas. Ailleurs, la neige a provoqué des difficultés de circulation. Driving conditions difficult everywhere.
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Près de Roanne (Loire) en fin de matinée, ce dimanche 15 janvier, deux personnes ont perdu la vie à cause de la neige et du verglas. Le conducteur a perdu le contrôle du véhicule, ce dernier a fini sa trajectoire dans un cours d’eau. Malgré l’intervention des pompiers, l’homme de 80 ans et son épouse de 75 ans sont décédés d’hypothermie.
An elderly couple died near Roanne (Loire – Auvergne) when they lost control of their car due to ice on the road and drove into a frozen lake. The 80 and 75 year old died of hypothermia before the emergency services retrieved them.
La neige arrive à Paris. Snow in Paris.
De grosses chutes de neige ont recouvert tout l’est et le centre de la France d’un épais manteau. À Saint-Étienne (Loire), il est tombé 15 cm, alors tout le monde prend ses précautions. Il faut souvent déblayer pour pouvoir circuler. Désormais, les flocons atteignent la région parisienne. Dans les Yvelines, une fine couche commence à tenir. C’est le premier épisode neigeux de cette ampleur cet hiver.
Heavy falls of snow have covered the east and centre of France with a thick coat. 15 cms of snow fell in Loire, Auvergne and drivers are severly restricted and taking precautions. Paris is also hit but the snow has stopped. A fine covering in the Yveline yields the first snow episode of the winter. Schools are closed in Corsica which unusually has had heavy falls of snow. Many ski stations are closed in the Pyrenees due to heavy falls of snow and equipment frozen by the extremely low temperatures. There are risks of avalanches and many ski slopes are closed to amateurs and holiday makers.
About bill
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.
