Given the evolution of the situation, the prefecture decided at the start of the evening to suspend all school transport for this Friday, January 20. A little later, the Péribus du Grand Périgueux authority warned that there would be no buses on the feeder lines also for the day this Friday, while indicating that the other lines of the network would resume their service in the morning. .
The Haute-Vienne prefecture for its part advised against taking the RN 21 between Limoges and Périgueux, describing the traffic as “difficult”: “For essential travel, the A 20 – A 89 route is to be preferred. It must be said that in Thiviers, several truckers had to stop their trucks on the RN 21 in the face of a thick snowpack of at least 10 cm at the start of the evening.
A truck stopped in Thiviers, where there was at least 10 cm of snow around 8 p.m.
Lydia Throw Pillow
The “castaways” of Mensignac
In Mensignac, we were “a little scared”, says mayor Véronique Chabreyrou. “The road was blocked from Pas-de-l’Anglais at Chancelade to Mensignac. “Seeing that the traffic in the town was saturated, the municipality decided, around 7:30 p.m., to open the village hall to potential shipwrecked people. “We had a few people, especially with children, testifies the first city councilor. But they stayed less than an hour because the road was cleared very quickly. The traffic jams extended for 7 to 8 km around the village before subsiding.
Reached around 9 p.m., the gendarmes counted eight traffic accidents in the Dordogne linked to bad weather, fortunately without any injuries. There were many axes cut by trees fallen under the weight of the snow, for example between Mauzac and Pezuls.
A pine has fallen across the road between Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang and Pezuls at a place called Millac.
Thomas Delpeyroux
Power cuts
For its part, Enedis announced at 8:30 p.m. that 19,000 homes were without electricity. That figure had risen to 15,000 by 10 p.m. And to remember that you must above all not touch cables on the ground: “Contact 09 72 67 50 24.”
The agents of the department’s road service had been put on pre-alert. The arrival of snow triggered the intervention of some of the snowplows. The Dordogne has 21 equipped trucks, each of which can handle 40 to 50 km.
On Highway 89, specialized vehicles went into action at 5:30 p.m. in the Périgueux sector.
It was between 6 and 8 p.m. that the phenomenon was most intense, with up to 5 to 7 cm of snow per hour. The lull announced around 9 p.m. was confirmed, but with very slippery floors.
In Périgueux, the first snowflakes, Thursday January 19 around 5 p.m., did not yet hold on the ground.
Philippe Griller
Photos of white coats multiplied throughout the evening on social networks.
Place Croix-des-Frères de Belvès under a white coat.
Sandra Delanes
In Nadaillac, in black Périgord.
Lea Huguet
The village of Sainte-Alvère, in Val-de-Louyre-et-Caudeau.
Xavier Bonnell
At The Shell.
Daniel Syriax
In Saint-Felix-de-Villadeix.
Mary Creative
In Villefranche-de-Lonchat.
Monique Devezis
A pretty white carpet in Salignac-Eyvigues.
Didier Rivet
In Lanouaille, the road service salt spreader left the depot around 5:45 p.m. to work on the D 704.
Jacqueline Poltorak
In Saint-Aulaye.
Lionel Faure
Traffic was complicated in Périgueux at the start of the evening.
Philippe Griller
The Saint-Front cathedral behind a curtain of snow.
Philippe Griller
In Montignac.
Virginie Jouanny
Snow in the Dordogne: “difficult” traffic on the RN 21, school transport suspended