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04 Jan 2013

Réunion (France)
Passage du cyclone Dumile

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— Government of France

Le ministre des Outre-mer, Victorin Lurel, adresse au nom du gouvernement un message de solidarité aux Réunionnaises et aux Réunionnais après le passage du cyclone Dumile aux abords de l’île de La Réunion ce jeudi.

Le ministre s’est tenu informé heure par heure de l’évolution de la situation par les autorités préfectorales. Il s’est entretenu jeudi soir avec des élus réunionnais qui lui ont communiqué des informations globalement rassurantes malgré la violence du phénomène.

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03 Jan 2013

Réunion (France)
Cyclone lashes Reunion

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— Agence France-Presse

01/03/2013 16:21 GMT

SAINT-DENIS-DE-LA-REUNION, France, Jan 03, 2013 (AFP) - Nearly 100,000 homes on Reunion were left without electricity on Thursday after a cyclone came close to scoring a direct hit on the French Indian Ocean island.

Winds of up to 180 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour) and torrential rain caused extensive damage to the electricity network after cyclone Dumile passed within 90 kilometres of the island's west coast at around 0900 GMT.

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02 Jan 2013

Réunion (France)
France/La Réunion : dizaines de milliers de foyers sans électricité après un cyclone

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— Agence France-Presse

01/03/2013 13:32 GMT

SAINT-DENIS-DE-LA-REUNION (France), 03 jan 2013 (AFP) - Des dizaines de milliers de foyers étaient privés jeudi d'électricité après le passage du cyclone tropical Dumile à 90 km de la côté ouest de La Réunion, île française de l'Océan indien.

Les principaux dommages de Dumile concernaient le réseau électrique, des fils ayant été arrachés par le vent ou des branchages. Selon un bilan établi dans la matinée, 68.000 foyers étaient privés de courant, en majorité dans l'ouest et le sud de cette île française.

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09 Dec 2002

Réunion (France)
General Map of Réunion (France)

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— Central Intelligence Agency
Map provided by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency - Dec 2002
Index map created by ReliefWeb - Feb 2003
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24 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Le cyclone Dina traverse l'île de la Réunion

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— Caritas
Le cyclone Dina a traversé l'île de la Réunion mardi 22 janvier. Les précipitations et la violence des vents, qui ont parfois dépassé les 250 km/h, ont causé d'énormes dégâts matériels.
Le président de la délégation du Secours Catholique de la Réunion, Axel Huguet, joint au téléphone jeudi 24 janvier , faisait état du nombre d'infrastructures touchées : « les routes sont coupées par des inondations et des éboulements, l'électricité est coupée dans des nombreuses communes de l'île, dans le nord et le sud-ouest de nombreuses maisons ont été endommagées. » Le quart de la population est
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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Reunion island counts cost after cyclone

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— Agence France-Presse
SAINT-DENIS, Reunion, Jan 23 (AFP) - The French Indian Ocean island of Reunion was Wednesday struggling to cope with widespread property damage and energy cuts after being savaged by a cyclone packing winds of up to 250 kilometres (155 miles) per hour.

"Severe damage" had been caused to buildings and electricity and water networks by cyclone Dina, which hit Tuesday, Reunion's prefect, or top government official, Gonthier Friederici, said. Two people were injured.

Half the island's homes were without power, 2,500 people were in emergency shelters and fallen trees, downed

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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Cyclone Dina wreaks havoc on Reunion

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— Pan African News Agency
Saint Denis, Reunion (PANA) - Bad weather conditions on Tuesday hampered relief workers and security officials from visiting Reunion's eastern an northern coastal areas, which were badly affected by the tropical cyclone Dina.
The storm caused extensive damage to houses, crops and infrastructure in the two areas, with gusts of up to 250km per hour.

Officials could not travel to the area because the cyclone devastated roads, caused landslides and floods.

The cyclone has severed power from over 100,000 households or half the island's population, while more than 1,000

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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Paris dispatches support to Reunion after cyclone

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— Pan African News Agency
By Christophe Rocheland
PANA correspondent
Saint Denis, Reunion (PANA) - French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin Wednesday ordered the dispatching an airforce plane with 200 experts to Reunion where cyclone Dina caused untold casualties Tuesday.

He said 120 civil security men, 50 agents of France's Electricity Intervention Force and the Overseas Minister, Christian Paul, will be sent to Reunion.

An official statement said France has also granted Reunion's prefect for extreme emergency rescue in most difficult situations.

Meanwhile, French President Jacques Chirac

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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
La Réunion dévastée par le cyclone DINA: Secourir, pendant et après la crise

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— Croix-Rouge Française
23 janvier 2002: l'oeil du cyclone DINA est passé à 25 km des côtes réunionnaises. La vitesse des vents a atteint 275 km/h sur les hauts reliefs et les pluies ont provoqué des inondations importantes dans de nombreuses parties de l'île.
Les dégâts engendrés sont considérables : 50% du réseau routier coupé, de très nombreuses maisons et entreprises endommagées voire détruites, rupture du réseau d'électricité, d'eau et de téléphone, etc. L'île de la Réunion devra panser ses plaies pendant encore de longs mois.

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