The damage is enormous in the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds, which is shocked after the scourge of the meteorological phenomenon.
A violent storm with wind gusts estimated at 217 km/h hit the city La Chaux-de-Fondsin the northwest of Swiss, around 11:30 a.m., in which one person died and 40 others were injured. Although the storm did not last long, strong gusts of wind caused extensive damage.
Numerous vehicles were destroyed, roofs torn off, street furniture blown up and dozens of trees uprooted. He even blew off part of the roof of an ice rink. Several thousand buildings were affected.
The strong gusts of wind also caused several trees to fall on the train tracks and disrupted connections between La Chaux-de-Fonds and the train stations. La Ferriere, St-Imier, Les Hauts-Geneveys And Le Locle, as reported by the Swiss railway company CFF in its social networks. The company assured that it is already setting up alternative bus routes for some of these routes.
The rescue and cleaning work is currently ongoing. The police appealed to the population not to expose themselves to danger, especially falling tiles or trees, and not to go into the surrounding forests.
Storms in eastern France and northern Italy
Before the storm reached Switzerland, it hit the eastern franceand in particular to the Department of Doubt. The city of Montlebon was most affected. The town hall, church and school buildings and “about fifteen houses” suffered damage to their roofs.
Other cities were also hit by heavy rains. A Delta Airlines flight Milan-New York was redirected Rome Due to bad weather, in the province of Monza and Brianza, a woman was crushed by a large tree that suddenly fell on her.