The red alert was lifted at the meeting, Friday in the morning. The island was swept by violent winds and intense rains, but compliance with safety instructions limited the human balance.
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Classified intense tropical cyclone and considered “potentially dangerous” by Météo-France, Batsirai has relatively spared the meeting after the system’s eye has passed slowly about 180 kilometers north of the coast. From Wednesday, February 2, 7 pm to Friday, February 4, 9 am, the island was placed on a red alert, meaning the confinement for 860,000 reunion. An additional test in this department struck by the Omicron wave with one of the highest incidence rates in France (5,312 per 100,000 inhabitants, on January 28) and overloaded hospitals. The daily occupation in Covid medicine doubled in three weeks, which required the tripping of the white plan on January 12th.
Before you see Batsirai start moving on Thursday at the end of the afternoon, the meeting was swept by violent winds at 130 km / h on the coast and over 150 km / h in the heights. Intense rains caused by the peripheral clouds and the back of the cyclone fell on the island. Weather-France recorded “remarkable or exceptional values”, according to Emmanuel Cloppet, Director of the Regional Meteorological Center specialized for tropical cyclones for the Southwest Indian Ocean.
Since the beginning of the phenomenon, 600 millimeters of water have fallen into the three circuses of the island (Mafate, Salazie, Cilaos) and 1,500 millimeters on the volcano massif. At sea, 10 to 12 meters waves were measured, “a rare phenomenon”. Due to the swell, the coastal road, a vital axis connecting the north and the west of the island, has been closed. Because of scree and falls of trees and branches, traffic was impassable and dangerous on several ways. Seven streams have been placed in yellow vigilance due to the risk of significant flood.
Seaves Securus
In difficulty and drifting since Thursday morning in a dismantled sea, a Mauritian petroleum of 73 meters, the Treastar, failed in the evening on the coast of Saint-Philippe, in the southeast of the Isle. Out of stock, the eleven Indian marine and Bangladesho were evacuated from the vessel using a zipline and taken care of in a school of the municipality transformed into medical position. A difficult rescue operation due to weather and night conditions.
According to the Minister of Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, the tanker “navigated at empty”. “There is therefore no risk of serious marine pollution by hydrocarbon,” he added in a tweet. According to the prefecture of the meeting, the vessel contains 8 cubic meters of propulsion diesel “whose majority should disperse without major risk for the environment”. Apart from this episode, “the meeting held good,” said the Prefect Jacques Billant, highlighting “the civility and spirit of reunion and reunion”.
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