2023-11-07 08:36:29
A few days after flooding linked to storm Ciaran, the Pas-de-Calais department has been on red alert since Monday November 6 at 4 p.m., due to a “exceptional flood” expected on the coastal river Aa and Liane, announced Météo-France and Vigicrues.
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the showers took on a more intense stormy character than expected, giving significant accumulations in a few hours over the western basins of Pas-de-Calais.
The flood of the Aa described as“exceptional” by the organism, is “higher than the historic flood of 2002” et “will spread downstream to Wizernes where widespread and very damaging overflows are expected in the second part of the day on Tuesday”, details Vigicrues. The flood of the Liane is also described as“exceptional”. The red alert applies until Wednesday evening.
Schools closed
” It is a disaster “, said Maxime Delianne, mayor of Maresville, where the water rose more than a meter in some houses on Monday afternoon. The Dordonne, a small river which crosses the town, “completely flooded the village”he laments.
Schools in the 36 municipalities located in the Aa basin will be closed on Tuesday, and the TER Boulogne-Etaples line will be interrupted until 3 p.m. on Tuesday, announced the Pas-de-Calais prefecture. in a press release. Fifty-five municipalities in the department were flooded or partially flooded Monday at 6 p.m., according to the prefecture.
The Pas-de-Calais prefecture asked the residents concerned not to take their cars, to stay at home on an upper floor and to only evacuate on orders from the authorities. “I call on all Pas-de-Calais residents to exercise the greatest vigilance and to respect the instructions of the authorities”, wrote on (ex-Twitter) the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Monday morning, a person was slightly injured when lightning struck a house in Alincthun, and “a tragedy was narrowly avoided in Zoteux, where a person stuck in their car almost drowned”indicated the Pas-de-Calais prefecture.
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