Seine-et-Marne returned to orange alert for floods this Saturday, October 12, announced Météo France. No more departments are affected by red alert, while the “general trend is decreasing”, the meteorological institute indicated on Friday evening.
No longer is any department on red alert for floods. Seine-et-Marne returned to orange this Saturday, October 12, Météo France reports in its bulletin published at 6 a.m. Friday evening, Eure-et-Loir had already returned to orange vigilance.
The “general trend” was towards recession on Friday evening after the floods caused by the Kirk depression and only Seine-et-Marne was kept on red alert for floods, Météo-France announced.
In Eure-et-Loir, almost half of the municipalities were affected by flooding in the wake of the Kirk depression, and the decline began slowly upstream of the affected areas. In Bonneval, where the Loir had flooded the town center and forced dozens of residents to leave their homes, the level had returned at 8:00 p.m. to only 0.90 m, compared to a peak of 2.13m the previous evening.
800 rescue operations carried out since the start of the bad weather
In the Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières sector, downstream, “the situation remains very difficult” even if the peak was about to be reached, according to a point from the Eure-et-Loir prefecture at 8:00 p.m. The city center was invaded by the waters of the Loir and all traffic was impossible, noted an AFP photographer.
According to records from the government organization Vigicrues, the peak was reached in Cloyes around 7:00 p.m., at the historically high level of 1.85 m compared to 1.80 m during the January 1995 flood.
The prefecture was however “awaiting confirmation for the decline which, once started, should gradually fall by 50 cm until 2:00 a.m.”. Some 800 rescue operations have been carried out since the start of the bad weather, with 304 people evacuated and brought to safety.
