The level of the Seine exceeded 6 meters Friday, June 3, 2016 . – 20minutes

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    The flood record is now 4 dead and 24 wounded

     


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    The flood of the Seine in Paris “reached a peak tonight at 6.10 meters”

     


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  • 19 departments placed in orange alert for floods and storms
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    More than 17,000 homes still without electricity

     


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3:10 p.m.: Firefighters of Paris intervened 700 times since Monday


3:05 p.m.: A Chateau in Yvelines, swans are on the road


3 p.m.: How the single measuring station of Paris became blind

Why did the flood of the Seine been underestimated for hours? Blame it on two small sensors, the only measure the Seine in Paris, that waste has probably blinded and with them, the authorities. Thursday night, the one measuring station of the Seine in Paris, installed at the bridge of Austerlitz, began to misfire, by undervaluing the flood levels of about thirty centimeters. His two sensors have all night sent their statements automatic misleading. The Ministry of Environment is stayed until Friday lunchtime on a forecast peak of 5.30 to 5.90 meters. The error will be detected as Friday morning, and the estimated peak increased to 6.30 m – 6.50 m at mid-day by the ministry. A manual operator took over.




1445: A Poissy (Yvelines), the water continues to rise


13.00: No return to normal at the train before the “second part of the next week “

the SNCF president Guillaume Pepy told AFP Saturday that a return to” normal traffic is not expected before the second part next week “after the decline of the Seine takes place. “The day the way will be dry when the decline will be made, it will work 48h00 to restore normal service, so it means that it takes on a normal traffic in the second part of next week,” -t he explained


12.45. on Twitter, the Seine flooded fascinates viewers

If a jog along the waterfront is not possible, for lovers of swimming and fishing that rising water is a bargain. . The evidence in this article house


12.30: “No risk of rise of the Seine”

the Seine River has peaked overnight and it will stabilize at 6.05 meters, “said the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo to the press after a meeting of the crisis unit set up to deal with flooding and flooding. “It is more now in this plateau phase before the recession, which will take some time,” she said. “All say that this is very slow and we are told that there is no lift Seine risk as such. From this point of view, we are rather reassured. ” “There are still rains are expected, but we are told to Météo-France they are not strong at the point yet to change things,” she said.




12:05: The train traffic in Ile-de-France is still “critical”:

the train traffic in Ile-de-France was still “critical” Saturday morning due to bad weather, according to SNCF explains that the recovery will “take time” before “to fix” .

the SNCF “is somewhat in the same situation as those who have had a flooded home, they come back and they work to achieve. We will be in this situation on ways to verify the installations, make repairs, but also on the trains because some can not be maintained it will take time to repair, to be able to do this maintenance before they can be normal traffic on the Ile-de-France, “said the press Alain Krakovitch, CEO SNCF Transilien in Austerlitz station. But “what is certain is before this recovery, it will check all the facilities,” he said, indicating otherwise

it “was impossible to define this stage “the cost of bad weather for the SNCF


12.00:. duplex A86 reopened

the prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine announced this morning that the duplex tunnel reopened. It also said that 27 homes are currently still without power in Rueil-Malmaison.




11:45: Update on transport in the Paris region

because of the weather, Saint-Michel station on Metro line 4 and Cluny on the line 10 are still closed.

on the Transilien network, 7 lines of 14 are affected reported this morning on France Info Alain Krakovitch general manager SNCF Transilien.

And that’s on the line C the situation is more complicated. Find all traffic forecasts on the C line here.




11.30: Over 43,000 cases filed with insurers:

the insurance Argus has the countdown. Friday night are 43,386 cases that were filed with insurers by flood victims. While the damage should be at least 600 million euros, according to the president of the French Insurance Association (AFA) Bernard Spitz, who will participate Monday in a meeting between insurers and government to coordinate compensation victims, the magazine estimated that the bill is expected to exceed 2 billion euros. Here are our tips for making your claim


11h. 25: The Louvre and the Museum Orsay opened June 8?

When asked by RTL, Berjot Vincent, CEO of heritage at the Ministry of Culture, said that “the goal” is to reopen the Paris museums closed due to flooding, ie the Louvre, the Grand Palais and the Musée d’Orsay, for June 8, ie Wednesday.


11.15: the peak of the flood in Paris was reached last night to 6.10 m:

the flood of the Seine in Paris “reached a peak tonight at 6.10 meters” and “we will not go higher,” said AFP Bruno Janet, head of the modeling pole of Vigicrues.

Since the maximum recorded at 2 am, the Seine decreases of one centimeter per hour and had dropped to 6.04 meters in 10 hours. “The maximum is past for sure, but there may still be some fluctuations, given the many rivers that flow and precipitation forecast in the Ile-de-France this afternoon,” said the expert


11.00:. Four deaths and 24 wounded since the floods:

“We have four deaths to deplore (…) we believe the families concerned (…) and 24 injured at this stage,” said the Prime Minister to the press at the ‘Following a visit to the crisis in the Ministry of the Interior Place Beauvau. “There have been 20,000 evacuations since the beginning of the episode, including 17,500 in Ile-de-France”.




10:25: the Seine descends slightly:

Saturday morning at 9:00, the Seine reached 6.05 m depending on Vigicrues prevention service, after a “maximum “6.10 m recorded at 2:00. “We are in a stabilization, even if we still have one or two cm longer,” said Janet Bruno, head of Vigicrues modeling pole. After eight days of continuous rise, the Seine and is returned to its level Friday afternoon in Paris. It says Vigicrues, a flood “very inferior” to that of 1910 (8.62 m), but “comparable to 1982″ (6.18 m).




10:15 19 departments in vigilance orange flood and or storms:

Weather -France placed in orange vigilance flood 14 departments. This is the Indre-et-Loire, Cher, the Loire-et-Cher, Indre, of Paris, the Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Yvelines, the Val d’Oise, Eure and Seine-Maritime, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle and Meuse. The latter three departments were also placed in Oange vigilance of a thunderstorm as the Ardennes and the Marne.


10.00: More than 17,000 homes without always electricity

More than 17,110 homes were still without power Saturday morning in Loiret, Loir-et-Cher and the Ile-de-France because of flooding, said the French grid operator for electricity distribution Enedis (ex ERDF). Friday night, the company had reported about 18,000 homes without electricity.

In detail, in the Ile-de-France, 15,210 homes were still victims of cuts. 8,300 were affected in Essonne, 5500 in Seine-et-Marne, 770 in the Val de Marne and 640 further downstream in the Yvelines. Loiret, 550 homes were still deprived of elective, a thousand were affected in the Loir-et-Cher finally 350 clients were involved in the Cher.




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