Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Floods: the center of Nemours (Seine-et-Marne) being evacuated – The World

watch map Météo France, issued on June 1  morning.

Seine-et-Marne department was placed Wednesday morning on red alert flood because of the risk of major flood of the Loing, like the Loiret, on red alert since Tuesday . The departments of Cher, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, in the Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle are orange alert.

in all, the floods need 8,000 firefighters interventions in recent days, a quarter in the Loiret, said the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.

  • higher raw than 1910 Seine-et-Marne

the center of Nemours was being evacuated Wednesday afternoon on the decision of the town hall this city of 12,000 inhabitants, divided in two by the waters from the morning. “This is an exceptional flood, higher than the 1910 flood” warned Météo France. The prefect of Seine-et-Marne, Jean-Luc Marx told France Info be suspended for two days “classes in schools, colleges and high schools” in seventeen cities of “critical sector Loing” , a tributary of the Seine.

A Nemours June 1st.

“the Loing rises, it is very high” , confirmed Patrick Septiers, Mayor of Moret-sur-Loing, whose services are asking residents ” they remove cars, ride their furniture or the floor to valuables “

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  • the Loiret, the hardest hit

In the Loiret, where he fell, according to the department, the equivalent of a half months of rainfall in three days, 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 prefecture has announced the total suspension of classes and extracurricular activities Wednesday. Concerts scheduled Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Music Festival Sully and Loiret are canceled. Three homes for the elderly were evacuated and nearly 300 inmates of the penitentiary center of Saran.

On the A10, closed from toll Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines in the direction of Orleans, 650 motorists were stranded. Approximately 200 were transported in military trucks in the capital of the Loiret, where a shelter has been installed in the Sports Palace. Access Orleans also remains impossible by the A71 from Vierzon and Bourges.

“Currently, one third of the county roads are blocked by floods,” but “improvement is however seen with the reopening of seven sections” on departmental, informed the county council.

along the Loing, several localities were affected Wednesday morning the flooding of the river. This is the case of Montargis, agglomeration of almost 70 000, where a facility for the elderly should be evacuated Wednesday afternoon.

  • Train Traffic difficult

According to SNCF, the “triangle Orleans-Tours-Vierzon” is assigned to . The weather also affect TER Paris-Chartres and Paris-Orleans line. Deletions and were delays.

In the Moselle, train traffic between Thionville and Luxembourg, interrupted since Monday, is expected to remain disrupted for several days. This line is taken daily by 8 000 to 10 000 people, Border particular.

  • Disturbances in Ile-de-France

the RER D, and the line between R Transilien Paris, Melun and Montereau were affected, with delays or train deletions. No Transilien train, Intercity or TER flows between Paris Montparnasse and Versailles-Chantiers.

Gif-sur-Yvette, in Essonne, a college of 530 students was evacuated.

in Paris, the Seine rose to 3 m from 82 to 17 am Tuesday. It should reach 4 m 30, resulting in the closure of part of the river banks. The water quench already the feet of the Zouave of the bridge of Alma, famous statue that serves as a landmark for Parisians. In the départements, 2344 procedures were performed and 1,234 firefighters were mobilized.

The President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse (Republicans), propose to the occasion of the next Standing Committee of the region, the establishment of an emergency fund of one million euros for joint disaster Ile-de-France by the floods, said Wednesday in a region press

Read also:. Flooding of the Seine, “A crisis scenario is highly probable”

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