2024-03-31 15:17:42
“Dramas” have been avoided but one person is missing in the floods in the west of France. Thanking the prefects, the local elected officials, the firefighters, “more than 500 of whom were mobilized all night”, Gérald Darmanin announced that a person who was “canoeing on one of the rivers” in Haute-Vienne near Limoges has not yet been found.
“Thanks to the weather alerts and the messages our fellow citizens receive on their phones, we were able to avoid tragedies,” however, underlined the Minister of the Interior on the sidelines of a trip to Val-d’Oise this Sunday. The drinking water network was cut in three municipalities in the south of Vienne as well as in three municipalities in Indre-et-Loire. Drinking water distributions are organized. But “apart from this disappearance, the relief actions and the civic behavior of the residents were able to avoid tragedies. »
Damage, “but not the intensity” feared
“Now the flood seems to be receding,” according to Gérald Darmanin. Météo-France nevertheless maintains red alert sound in the departments of Indre-et-Loire and Vienne and orange for Charente, Charente-Maritime, Gironde and Vienne, until Monday.
“There was damage but ultimately there was not the intensity that we feared [samedi] evening,” declared Patrice Latron, prefect of Indre-et-Loire during a press conference. In the department, 107 people were evacuated, including 73 residents of a nursing home in the town of Île Bouchard, on the banks of Vienne. Sixteen roads are cut in the department, where 200 gendarmes and firefighters are mobilized. “The results of the night were numerous homes, flooded cellars” but “no victims,” summarized the prefect.
Record expected
In Vienne, the Creuse river reached 6.78 m at Roche-Posay, exceeding the historic flood of 1982. It should rise again at the end of Sunday morning and approach the record of 1896, explained a technician on site. Vigicrues to AFP.
The Alpes-Maritimes are also placed on orange alert against the risk of avalanches from 3 p.m. until Monday morning.
The departments of Indre-et-Loire and Vienne will remain on Monday on red alert for the risk of flooding, while Gironde, Dordogne, Charente and Charente-Maritime will remain classified on orange alert for the same risk, according to Météo-France. . The Alpes-Maritimes and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence will be on orange alert for avalanche risk, adds the meteorological institute.
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