VIDEO / GRAPHICS – While the Seine-et-Marne is always on red alert, the flood peak is expected Friday at midday in Paris. Seine could rise to 6 meters. The Louvre is closed on Friday to evacuate his works.
After Wednesday’s images of desolation, the rain that falls on Thursday suggest a potential worsening of floods exceptional affecting several days the central and north-eastern France, including Seine-et-Marne and Loiret . In total, some 10,000 people have already been evacuated and Île-de-France.
The Weather Channel * maintained the Seine-et-Marne on red alert floods, but downgraded the Loiret orange alert. A new disturbance, much less active than the previous one, brings moderate and intermittent rains, said the forecasting agency. The Ouanne and Loing , two swollen rivers, are also on red alert
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Météo Consult also placed six other departments orange alert Cher, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher Essonne and Val-de-Marne.
The Weather Channel
Given the extensive damage caused by the rising waters, the president, Francois Hollande, announced Thursday afternoon that the state of natural disaster would be recognized at the next cabinet meeting next Wednesday. It will concern “the areas most affected” by the weather. Earlier, the Prime Minister announced Nemours since the establishment of “a special support fund” for local communities affected by the floods and promised quick implementation of natural disaster procedures. Moreover, the President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse (LR) announced that it would propose an emergency fund of one million euros for the Ile affected municipalities.
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Vigilance orange in Paris
the fears are now moving on the city of Paris, where the Seine? reached 5.17 meters to 17 hours at Austerlitz. Thursday afternoon, the police headquarters in the capital announced the passage orange alert level. “It still does not mean that there is danger,” she said, arguing that “for the moment only transport is affected.” Also according to the prefect of Paris, Michel Cadot, “The flood peak is expected to take place tomorrow at midday and reach 5.80 meters or 6 meters.” The red alert will be triggered that beyond 7.30 meters “danger threshold for locals. For now, the province reported 6,000 firefighters interventions in Île-de-France, with more than 1,000 firefighters mobilized. In addition, 50 divers, 6 hélicoprtères, 25 boats and four pumping means are mobilized in Île-de-France to fight against floods.
If the prefecture is desired reassuring about damage that would affect Parisians, it is still the biggest flood since 2001. in response, several institutions including the Louvre, have activated their crisis and the museum will be closed on Friday to evacuate the works placed in reserve. The Musée d’Orsay has also canceled his Thursday night and needs to close to 18 hours due to the establishment of a “protection plan” against the flood of the Seine. Again, a crisis unit has been set up.
In addition, two sites of the National Library of France (BNF) will be closed to the public Friday because of the flood of the Seine, although no work is threatened, announced the insitution. This closure occurs under the protection plan against floods established in 2007
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The Seine River is expected to reach 6 meters on Thursday 2 June in Paris Copyright: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP
the floods caused disturbances in the Paris transport (RER B, D, E, C and Tramway), already affected by a strike against the labor law. No Transilien train, intercity or TER and traveling between Paris-Montparnasse and Versailles-Chantiers, SNCF hoping to “return to normal” by Monday. On the R line seven crossings are flooded. The pathways between Nemours and Souppes-Château-Landon and the axis Dead / Montargis / Nevers also flooded, said SNCF. The line N is also impacted due to a sliding slope and mudslides in Beynes, Fontenay-le-Fleury and Meudon. Multiple landslides finally affect the D line between Corbeil and Melun.
In addition, the tunnel Lyon’s subterranean vigilance is high because of a risk of flooding, has added the railway company.
the RER C station Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame in Paris is not served since late Thursday morning. The Invalides station had to be closed in turn to 14 hours before, from 16 hours, the entire section of the regional train in Paris, along the Seine, added the network SNCF Ile-de- France.
• The Essonne on alert
“The situation remains tense, difficult in many areas. I think of the Ile-de-France, particularly the departments of Seine-et-Marne and the Essonne “stressed the Prime Minister since the Operational Centre interdepartmental management crisis. In the latter department, Manuel Valls noted an “acute situation and to come to Longjumeau with no doubt nearly two thousand people who should be removed and also to a lesser extent, fortunately, in Corbeil-Essonnes” .
The city of Longjumeau , town of 22,000 inhabitants, was being evacuated. The area, which includes nearly 2,000 people, is completely flooded and “water in places reaches over 1.30 m or 1.50 m”, told AFP the mayor Sandrine Gelot (LR). More than 2,500 homes of this city are not supplied with electricity and about 200 people had been evacuated on Wednesday evening. The town hall has been temporarily relocated to a city park located on higher ground.
A twenty kilometers south, Corbeil-Essonnes , where the Essonne River flows into the Seine, “is preparing to shock” for the night of Thursday to Friday because “the wave that’s down the Essonne back,” said AFP Mayor Jean-Pierre Bechter (LR).
Retrouvez details of the situation river near you on the site Vigicrues.
• The downtown Nemours still under water
Nemours , in Seine-et-Marne, which was found cut in two by the waters, the levels reached during the flood of 1910 (4.25 m) have been exceeded. “It’s been 60 years that I lived here, I’ve never seen that,” said Sylvette Gounaud, used a flooded supermarket. “The city center is completely under water, all the shops are destroyed,” lamented the mayor of the town, Valerie Lacroute. Three thousand people were evacuated to shelters. Classes in schools were also suspended in 80 municipalities of the “critical sector Loing”, a tributary of the Seine. The National Police also announced that she had saved from drowning three children and their parents to Moret-sur-Loing. Alerted by the screams, the police came to help this family trapped by the rising waters at a recess of a building.
However, progresisve recession begins Thursday in Souppes -sur-Loing and Nemours. In contrast, the Seine-et-Marne prefecture announced the Le Figaro the Seine continues to rise 20 centimeters every six hours between Montereau-Fault-Yonne and Melun. Précation by the Seine Port of nursing home will be evacuated “as soon as possible,” said the prefecture.
Melun , the river Almont has also invaded parts of the city, says Le Parisien . Its level has stabilized, however, unlike that of the Seine, which continues to climb.
• progressive Subsided in Montargis, Loiret
In neighboring Loiret, it fell the equivalent of one and a half months of rainfall in three days. Throughout the course of the Loing, towns were affected, like Montargis where the sub-prefecture was submerged under 1.80 meters of water. “We’re gradually decline,” said Agence France-Presse deputy mayor LR Jean-Pierre Door, but it will take “at least two-three days” before returning to normal.
According to the National Education, the courses have been restored in many academic institutions from Friday. The Girodet museum reserves have also been overwhelmed by the sudden rise of water, suggesting expensive restorations. With respect to the A10, which looks like a lake in places, the Vinci company announced its intention to pump water to the “Road shipwrecked” can recover their cars and restore the earlier traffic . The highway, however, will remain closed in Orleans jusqà next Monday.
On Thursday morning, a flood risk was also mentioned for the Cher and Indre Touraine on the map Vigicrues.
• Approximately 24,000 homes without electricity
About 24,000 homes were without power Thursday noon in the Loiret and Ile-de-France, according the figures transmitted by France Info Enedis (formerly ERDF, manager of the electricity distribution network). In detail, 7,800 clients were victims of cuts in Seine-et-Marne , mainly in Nemours, 7000 in the Loiret , 3800 in the Essonne (around Longjumeau) and 2000 in the Yvelines .
the situation in the Loiret “tends towards improvement,” while the teams are Enedis ” very mobilized “in the west of Ile-de-France to protect” substations “- electrical works which make the connection between the electrical high and medium voltage lines. – the rising waters
Indre-et-Loire 160 inhabitants of Villandry were evacuated on Thursday. These are people living on the Cher. The decision was taken by the prefecture, which indicated that “the level of safety of the dam is reached.” The animals of farmers were also safely away dikes, tells France Bleu.
In all, since Sunday, flooding 10,000 already need interventions firefighters since the beginning of the rainy Sunday episode , authorities said. They have produced 5,000 evacuations.
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