Road users are invited to exercise the greatest vigilance this Wednesday, October 9. Due to the passage of the Kirk depression, which has been characterized by sustained and lasting rain since the middle of last night, several roads are currently flooded in Maine-et-Loire. The department is on orange “rain-flood” alert.
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“The rain is falling continuously. We cross small ponds, even small rivers”says one of our journalists. Several portions are flooded between Saint-Georges-sur-Loire and Saint-Augustin-des-Bois, also on the D51 between Le Louroux-Béconnais and Vern-d’Anjou.
Overflowing ditches, fields saturated with water
THE “road conditions are really tricky with ditches that also overflow”he adds. Fields are also saturated with water. The corn harvest in the coming weeks promises to be complicated for farmers.
On social networks, Internet users also describe flooded roads, such as that of Brissarthe (Les Hauts-d’Anjou) towards Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe.
From Pays de la Loire to the Ardennes via the Paris region, a month of rain in one day is expected this Wednesday, according to Météo France. Thirty-five departments are currently in orange vigilance and one in red, Seine-et-Marne.