Floods: water should still ride – Europe1

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One person was found dead Wednesday in the center of France, a region hit by floods since Tuesday. Thursday morning, the Loiret and Seine-et-Marne were always placed in red vigilance “floods”.

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found dead octogenarian Not far from Paris, firefighters found Wednesday night the body of a woman floating in 86 years its flag flooded Souppes-sur-Loing in Seine-et-Marne, due to an exceptional flood. “After the events of concern to his family,” the octogenarian was “discovered drowned,” said the prefecture, while a police source said it “was probably dead before” and “not necessarily by drowning “.

” I have never seen that. “ More than 500 firefighters, police officers and gendarmes were still at work in the evening to make the shelter residents of this department, while floods have caused 8,000 interventions in a few days in the country’s center. “It’s been 60 years that I lived here, I have never seen that,” commented, flabbergasted, Sylvette Gounaud, used a small supermarket de Nemours. About 200 people were evacuated from the center of this city of Seine-et-Marne, invaded by the overflowing waters of the Loing, a tributary of the Seine.

“We are afraid that the water rises and we lose everything. It makes you want to cry because it’s not used. It is not possible to be like this with people you do not know, sleep on beds that are not no beds, not be here … “complained a resident panting voice.

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Private electricity . In the neighboring department of Loiret, he fell in three days the equivalent of a month and a half of precipitation and the Castle of Chambord, darling tourists sat Wednesday night amid the waters. Students from schools, colleges and high schools of the department will be taught courses and extracurricular activities Thursday. Nearly 10,000 homes were without electricity in the three departments of Loiret, in the Seine-et-Marne and Yvelines, according Enedis, which deployed several hundred technicians and dozens of generators.

A Montargis, in Loiret, some streets have benefited from the decline permitted by reduced rainfall in recent hours. The different shops in town are closed, however, and the electricity is off. “In general the Loing is going down,” says Benoit Digeon, deputy mother of Montargis, for which we must be patient. At Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne, the situation is critical. Wednesday night, the 3,000 inhabitants of the city were evacuated. “We are looking benchmarks was not the same, it is a night which is a little scary and long. We can see that there is a little bit tired,” said Christian, who lives in Europe 1.

the people have the impression of living a tsunami in Romorantin. “The great reference is 1910, but that 1910 document was greatly exceeded, we are in another planet, it’s amazing. If it continued to rise maybe we will exceed a 1910 reference meter, “says the director of the city museum. “I think that with me it goes and if it exceeds 2 meters I will not have anything, I will not even have my papers,” complained a resident evacuated.

the feet of the Zouave. in Paris, part of the river banks were closed and the level of the Seine is expected to rise and could reach five meters in the evening. The Seine had already reached 4.34 m at 15h and soaking the feet of the Zouave Alma bridge, famous statue that serves as a landmark for Parisians. During the historic flood of 1910 which serves as a reference for over a century, he had water up to their shoulders (8.62 m). Thursday morning, the police department has also announced the closure of the underground of the Quai de Bercy.

Anger at Roland Garros . Weather disrupted the ambience usually hushed French Open, the only major tennis tournament without protection against rain, where players have said their anger Wednesday against the repeated interruptions. “A scam!” He told Spain’s David Ferrer. “The court was not good and the balls were waterlogged. I do not feel safe on the court. I was afraid of hurting me”, had said Tuesday the Romanian Simona Halep, engaged in the one of only two matches completed that day.