After having been placed on red alert for floods since 4 p.m. this Wednesday October 9, Météo-France announces the reduction of the system this Saturday October 12. Seine-et-Marne remains placed on orange alert.
The beginning of the decline? Seine-et-Marne has been downgraded to orange vigilance for flooding, this Saturday, October 12 at 6 a.m., Météo France announces. The department was placed this Wednesday at 4 p.m. on maximum alert in the face of the high risk of the river overflowing. Grand Morin (downstream).
After the passage of the Kirk depression, Météo-France had kept Seine-et-Marne on red flood alert this Friday evening, while Eure-et-Loir, until now placed in red, had switched to orange alert. .
Shocked residents, aid released
Several municipalities in Île-de-France, particularly in Seine-et-Marne, have been affected by flooding in recent days. Some residents had to be evacuated.
“I didn’t expect that. We had already had a flood in March but that’s something I’ve never seen,” testified a father from Crécy-la-Chapelle this Friday.
The same day, Valérie Pécresse, president of the region, was worried about being “still far from the recession and far from the moment when the fire pumps will be able to dry out the houses”, she declared, speaking to BFM Paris Île-de-France.
Aid of 1.6 million euros had already been granted to the municipalities, traders and artisans most affected by the floods last Augustin Seine-et-Marne. An envelope which will be revised upwards, according to the president of the Île-de-France region.
