“The biggest precipitation is coming, so caution when you live near watercourse,” warned the prefect of the island on Thursday morning.
Le Monde
The prefect of the island of the meeting, Jacques Billant, lamented twelve injured during the night of Wednesday 2 to Thursday, February 3, during the passage of the Cyclone Batsirai north of his ribs. The Prefect also warned Thursday morning that “the worst did not go” because the day will still be marked by heavy rainfall.
“At 7 hours (4 hours in Paris), (the cyclone) was 205 kilometers north of the meeting. It moves at the speed of 6 kilometers time on a Southwest West trajectory,” said At a press conference the prefect who felt that he will arrive “closer to the island in the morning, (…) about 180 kilometers from the coast”. “The biggest precipitation is to come so caution when you live near watercourse,” he warned.
Thirty-six thousand people without electricity
If the prefect does not count for the time “no victim due to non-compliance” containment instructions, the island, however, “twelve wounded in relation to: ten people who have been poisoned with carbon monoxide, a Employed firefighter during an intervention on a flag fire and a wounded after a fall of a roof “.
“We count only a limited number of interventions directly related to the cyclone, with twenty-five,” said the prefect who alerted “the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning that can be generated When using electrogens in closed medina “.
Preventive water cuts to preserve the facilities touched on Thursday morning 30,000, out of the 860,000 inhabitants in this Indian Ocean Island. Electricity cuts hit up to 61,000 homes. “Thanks to the mobilization of EDF teams, 25,000 customers have been met with remote maneuvers”, but “36,000 customers are currently deprived of electricity,” said the prefect.
The last passage of a cyclone near the meeting goes back to March 2018. Named “Dumazile”, the phenomenon had provoked floods and impressive floods.