If the situation seems to be stabilizing in the Paris region, floods now threaten the Seine-Maritime and the Eure. Vigicrues placed in red vigilance both departments of Normandy and especially the whole part of the Seine extending Poses (Eure), about thirty kilometers south of Rouen, to the estuary.
Located in red vigilance “as a precaution” , this sector should be affected in the night by the “coincidence of very high flow rates” the river and strong tidal coefficients
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The most important overflows are expected upstream of Rouen, especially in the area of Elbeuf. Traffic is already banned in some Seine axes to Freneuse and Tourville-la-Rivière. Other overflows could occur even in Rouen and in the area of La Bouille, just downstream of the Norman capital, where the Seine Saturday evening brushed the low platforms, carrying tree branches, but not overflowing.
in the Eure, “there are some flooded car parks and sports fields and towpaths but no evacuation of residents took place” , announced the prefecture.
Four dead, 24 wounded
in Paris, the worst seems to be over, while the continuous rise of brown water up to 6.10 m had caused concern, the Seine confirmed in the night from Saturday to Sunday its downward trend falling under six meters, 5.85 m to 3 hours. Since its peak, the Seine regularly back down. This is the biggest flood since 1982 (6.18 m), however, very far from the famous flood of 1910 (8.62 m)
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Météo-France still plans Sunday to rain over much of the country. Since the beginning of the bad weather last weekend, four deaths and 24 injuries were reported, said Saturday Prime Minister Manuel Valls. The origin of the death of one of the four victims previously identified, an octogenarian, however, remains unclear.
François Hollande described the flood “real disaster” , during a displacement in the flooded city of Romorantin (Loir-et-Cher). As of Wednesday, the state of natural disaster will be recognized at the Council of Ministers. In total, in the regions, 20,000 people were evacuated, said Manuel Valls.
Fifteen departments always orange alert
In addition to Eure Seine-Maritime in red vigilance are 15 departments in amber alert to flooding, Ile-de-France, in Lorraine and in the Centre region. Vigilance storms was lifted in five departments of the East and in the Var.
As for the Paris transport disruptions remain relevant. The RATP, which triggered Friday its prevention plan, keeps closed preventively two metro stations and a nearby RER station of the river.
For the SNCF, which has three of its partially cut Ile lines -de-France, return to “normal traffic is not expected before the second half of next week” , according to its president Guillaume Pepy.
on the move in a flooded neighborhood Crosne (Essonne), Manuel Valls has also called for an end “as soon as possible” the strike at the SNCF, for him “totally incomprehensible” in the context of the weather.
on the A10, vehicles stranded by floods begin to be evacuated early Sunday, according to the concessionaire Cofiroute (VINCI). About 200 cars and 100 trucks are stuck between two sheets of water that covered the highway between kilometer points 86 and 93. To evacuate, the construction group Vinci, Cofiroute’s parent, is in the process of dry a 800 meter long canal, built with 3000 bags of rubble.
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