VIDEO – The Loiret and Seine-et-Marne are on red alert due to the flooding of the Loing, a tributary of the Seine. Bernard Cazeneuve and Ségolène Royal called “everyone to the greatest vigilance” following the death of an octogenarian in Souppes-sur-Loing, near Nemours.
many areas of France the center have their feet in water since Wednesday morning, especially in the departments of Loiret and Seine-et-Marne placed on red alert “flooding,” according to the Weather Channel *, due to the exceptional flood of Loing , a tributary of the Seine, which reached levels of about the great flood of 1910 but also the rise of the Ouanne .
Seine-et-Marne, the city center of Nemours was being evacuated on Wednesday, due to the rise of Loing. The announcement was made to the people by the mayor of the town, Valerie Lacroute, using a megaphone, tells France Info. If the municipality does not know precisely how many people are currently in the zone, the evacuation could involve 4,000 people. The operation, which began at 15 hours, was to end in the evening. Evacuees were housed in a gymnasium in the city. Furthermore, access to clean water is no longer ensured and electricity is not fed into the city center. The Minister for Ecology, Segolene Royal, has visited the site Wednesday afternoon.
An octogenarian found drowned in the Seine-et-Marne
In the neighboring village Souppes-sur-Loing, the lifeless body of a woman of 86 years was found floating in its flag Wednesday night, according to the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne, joined by Le Figaro . Relatives worried not to have news had reported the case of this woman. According to France Bleu, citing the mayor of the town, she was on the list of persons to be evacuated due to flooding. It is on the way to his home that firefighters have discovered. “We do not know what she died, she was probably dead before,” said a police source told AFP.
The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, and the Minister of Ecology, Segolene Royal, have expressed their “deep emotion” in a statement and reminded everyone to “the greatest vigilance “while a new rainfall event is scheduled for tomorrow night in Ile-de-France, central and eastern France.
From 6 am, the city was cut in two by the excesses of the Loing, the unusually strong flow. This stretch of water has continued to grow as the hours, reaching in places over a meter tall. The shops of the historic city center quickly found themselves immersed, isolated coastal home, the Nemouriens cut in their activities. “It’s impressive. I live here for 39 years, I never saw that. There had already been excesses but it was just a few puddles “slips Virginia Louitfi, 44.
In addition to the damage observed in Nemours, classes were suspended in institutions of fifty municipalities. Several hundred houses were evacuated Tuesday and cut dozens of roads. On Gif-sur-Yvette, in Essonne, a college of 530 students was evacuated. The local weekly newspaper, The Republic of Seine-et-Marne , specifies that 300 interventions have already taken place during the day and 160 firefighters are “committed throughout the department” but that ” no injuries were reported. “
Loir-et-Cher, Indre, Indre-et-Loire and Cher were placed in orange vigilance flooding. Same color for the Ardennes, Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle and the Moselle, for precipitation. For its part, Meteo France does not place the Ardennes orange alert but evokes the risk of flooding for the three departments of the northeast.
“It’s 8000 intervention of firefighters that took place in recent days, including 2,000 in the department of Loiret,” said the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, citing among these operations evacuating nursing homes and a prison. “We are already working and already mobilizing devices” disaster “for the most affected areas, so that people can quickly engage with insurance companies all procedures that need to be” has he added.
“We are in red on the location of the department,” said his side Nacer Meddah, the prefect of the Loiret. He said the houses were flooded in particular in the area of Montargis and Château-Renard and an A10 stretch remained closed since the toll St-Arnoult-en-Yvelines in the direction of Orleans. “We had to evacuate 500 people yesterday on two reception centers,” he said. “We evacuated EPHAD 3, clinic, 400 inmates of the penitentiary Saran – it is still more than 200 on site – there have been interventions in 2200,” he listed. In this department, he fell in 72 hours the equivalent of 20 days of rain and the prefecture announced the total suspension after-school classes and activities Wednesday in all establishments. Some 300 firefighters were mobilized.
Throughout the course of the Loing, several localities were affected by the flood similar to that exceptional 1910, as in Montargis, agglomeration of 60,000 inhabitants northeast of Loiret which was left flooded and where 59 patients of the clinic were evacuated. In the area of Orleans, the access to the industrial area of Saran were completely cut off with many trucks prevented from joining their destination, parked along the road.
disrupted transport
Maas , 30 houses were affected by the overflowing of the Orne , north of the river in the department last evening orange alert, according to prefecture. Moselle, train traffic between Thionville and Luxembourg, suspended since Monday due to an incident at a switching station caused by rain, should remain disrupted for several days. This line is frequented daily by 8000 to 10,000 persons, including frontier workers. In Ile-de-France, the RER D and the line R of Transilien between Paris and the Seine-et-Marne were still affected Wednesday, including Villeneuve Saint-Georges and Créteil Pompadour.
according Vigicrues government website, the departments of Val-de-Marne and Essonne are also expected damage in Wednesday evening. In places, the Seine could reach 5.6 meters.
* The Weather Channel is a company of Figaro group.
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