Thursday, June 2, 2016

Flooding kills one in Seine-et-Marne, 12 departments still orange alert – Le Monde

Vigilance card released on Thursday, May 2  at 16 hours.
  • A department in red vigilance and twelve orange

Seine-et-Marne department Thursday remained on red alert floods, while the level of vigilance in the Loiret, one of the departments most affected by flooding since Tuesday, was lowered to orange. Ile Eleven other departments -de-France and Centre were still orange alert (Val-d’Oise, Yvelines, Essonne, Indre-et-Loire, Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Indre), according to the bulletin of Météo France 16 hours.

the rains that caused extensive damage and numerous evacuations in a large northeast quarter of the country, ended on Tuesday, but a new rainy episode won the country since Wednesday night, by the Belgian and German borders.

just over 19,000 homes were without power Thursday night in the Loiret and Ile-de-France because of flooding, against 21,700 at the end of morning, according Enedis (formerly ERDF), the manager of the French network of electricity.

in Germany, heavy rains killed at least nine people dead since Sunday and three people missing in Bavaria according to a local police spokesman. Epicentre flooding Wednesday Simbach am Inn began to see the water level down in the streets of the city, which sometimes rose to the roofs .

  • a major flood of the average Seine training
La Seine reached the knees of the statue of  the Zouave, June 2 in Paris.

Paris and Ile-de-France, the level of the Seine reached Thursday mid-afternoon 5.13 meters and is expected to rise Friday between 5.30 and 5.90 m, according to a daily point of the Ministry of environment. Since the night before, part of the bank on roads are closed and occasional outbursts are not excluded. For now, Paris is not threatened by a catastrophe comparable to that of 1910 – the Seine had reached 8.42 m and flooded including subway stations, paralyzing the city

The section. average Seine was placed this morning orange alert, in Seine-et-Marne to the upstream of Paris

Read the interview. Flooding of the Seine, “A crisis scenario is highly probable “

  • Manuel Valls visiting Seine-et-Marne, on red alert

visit to Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne on Thursday morning, the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, announced the establishment of “outstanding support fund” for local communities affected by floods and promised quick implementation of natural disaster procedures. According to the Prefecture, a rider of 74 years died “washed away” in the floods in Evry-Grégy-on-Yerre.

Read the story: a Nemours flooded by the waters of the Loing, a night of sleep and anxiety

the city of Nemours was cut in two by the waters, and Mayor Valerie Lacroute, who caused the evacuation of 3000 of the 13 000 inhabitants in the boat to shelters, deplored on Wednesday a downtown “ totally under water,” where “all the shops are destroyed.” Homes in the flooded part have neither electricity, no heating, no water. The levels of the flood of 1910 (4.25 m) were exceeded in Nemours, where the peak was reached at midnight Wednesday (odds 4.63 m).



Nemours Residents were evacuated by canoe,  June 2

on Thursday morning, the recession was beginning very slowly in the city center, but the situation remained worrying in the department. By cons, “in Melun, Seine continues to rise” , and heavy rains have resumed Thursday morning, said Jean-Luc Marx, prefect of Seine-et-Marne. Further north, between Montereau-Fault-Yonne and Melun, Seine rises “20 cm every six hours” , according to the prefecture, which has decided to extend until Saturday the closure of establishments schools in 70 municipalities in the department.

Ten kilometers south, the lifeless body of an octogenarian was discovered Wednesday night in his flooded pavilion in Souppes-sur-Loing. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday, according to the prosecutor of Fontainebleau, Guillaume Lescaux, which believes it could be “surprised by the rising waters” and die “hypothermia” , while local officials ensured in the morning that his death was “not linked” floods.

  • in the Loiret, the flood is higher than 1910

throughout the course of the Loing, many cities were affected, as Montargis. The sub-prefecture of the Loiret was submerged under 1.80 meters of water Thursday morning. He would have fallen in the department the equivalent of one and a half months of rainfall in three days, and almost two thirds of the municipalities are affected by the floods. The 300 firefighters mobilized conducted over 2000 interventions since the beginning of weather. The flood in the basin Loing reached levels higher than those of the 1910 flood.

The A10 was still closed Thursday morning from the toll Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines to Orleans; 650 motorists were stranded Wednesday by floods and were evacuated at night by military trucks carrying troops. Access to the capital of the Loiret remains as impossible by the A71 from Vierzon and Bourges. In total, twenty roads remain closed to traffic, according Vinci Autoroutes.



What is the state of natural disaster?

the system of “natural disasters” is regulated by law and provides support for physical damage to insured property. The insurance contracts for goods (comprehensive home, vehicle or business) provide compensation for damage caused by natural peril. But the guarantee only plays if an inter published in the Official Journal arrested finds the state of natural disaster in the municipality where the damaged property is located.

The vehicles insured third party, that is to say, only civil liability, does not benefit from the natural disaster insurance, about 30% of the vehicles, according to the French Association of insurance. Also excluded from the warranty boats and transported goods, damage to crops not harvested, crops, soil and not confined cattle.

As of the publication of the decree of disaster natural, policyholders have up to ten days to submit their statement of claims to their insurer.

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