VIDEO. Rain, flood and flood alert: impressive images of dams in Gard, Creuse or Loire

The images are striking. The exceptional rains which hit France this Thursday, October 17 did not spare the Gard, Creuse and Loire dams, where flows reached unprecedented thresholds.

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At the Grangent dam, “with the flooding of the Loire”, “the flow exceeded 2200 m3 per second!”, noted the Météo Express channel last night. The flood was such that EDF teams went to the site on Thursday morning to open the floodgates one by one, specifies Progresswho emphasizes that it was vital to “relieve the dam in view of the expected precipitation”.

The flow was also very strong in the Creuse, where the Champsanglard dam also carried downpours of water, as shown in the images captured by The Mountain.

Same observation in the Gard this Friday morning: at the Vallabrègues dam, where a flow of 8000 m3/sec was expected overnight, the water seemed to overflow, causing impressive swirls.

A tree falls on a family in Paris

This rainy episode affects again on Friday morning “a large part of the former Midi-Pyrénées region, progressing slowly towards the south”, specifies Météo France, predicting “a loss of intensity during the afternoon”.

France had not experienced “an episode of such violence in the Cévennes for 40 years”, noted Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The firefighters carried out a total of more than 2,300 interventions and helped “save lives”, he added.

Three minor injuries were recorded. In Paris, a tree fell on a family, whose father did not survive, without the link with bad weather being formally established.