Two departments of Normandy were always placed in red vigilance even if Sunday tendency morning on the front of the floods is to stabilize or even to decline like the Seine fell below six meters .
the Seine confirmed in the night from Saturday to Sunday its decline down to 5.85 m at 3.
the floods now threaten the Seine-Maritime and Eure. Vigicrues placed in red vigilance both departments and especially the whole part of the Seine extending Poses (Eure), about thirty kilometers south of Rouen, to the mouth.
Placed in red vigilance “as a precaution” and at the insistence of the Minister of the Environment Ségolène Royal, this sector will be affected in the night by the “conjunction of very high flow” of the river and strong tidal coefficients .
“I think we are in a situation of red alert, especially since it is a mechanism that happens overnight. It absolutely must not that people are trapped and be surprised,” he justified the minister during a press conference.
expected overflows in Elbeuf
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. In this town, a hamlet is particularly monitored because it could be threatened by the excesses, according to prefecture of Seine-Maritime.
Other overflows could occur even in Rouen and in the sector 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 car parks flooded as well as sports fields and towpaths but no evacuation of residents took place, “said the prefecture. “We did not undertake any interventions,” said his side the departmental service of fire and rescue services (SDIS) of Seine-Maritime.
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. And fueled the curiosity of onlookers, many rush to watch the river.
Since its peak, the Seine regularly back down. This is the biggest flood since 1982 (6.18 m this year), however far from the famous flood of 1910 (8.62 m).
Météo-France provides for Sunday still rains over much of the country.
Since the beginning of the bad weather last weekend, four deaths and 24 injuries were reported, said 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”, while traveling in the flooded city Romorantin (Loir-et-Cher). On Wednesday, said the head of state, the state of natural disaster will be recognized at the Council of Ministers.
Besides Eure and Seine-Maritime in red vigilance, 15 departments are orange vigilance 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.
disrupted transport
As for the Paris transport disruptions remain relevant.
the RATP, which triggered Friday its prevention plan, keeps closed preventively a subway station and a nearby RER station of the river.
for the SNCF, which has three of its partially cut lines in the Ile-de-France, the return to “normal traffic is not expected before the second half of next week,” according to its president Guillaume Pepy.
on the road in a neighborhood flooded Crosne (Essonne), Manuel Valls, in rubber boots, has also called for an end “as soon as possible” of the strike at the SNCF, for it “completely incomprehensible” in the context of the weather.
in all, in the regions concerned, “there have been 20,000 evacuations,” said Manuel Valls.
on the A10 motorway, the evacuation of 200 cars and 100 weight heavy blocked could begin as early Sunday, said the concessionaire Cofiroute (VINCI).
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