The Chaumontais were awakened in the middle of the night, shortly before 1 a.m., this Thursday, June 20, due to a violent storm which hit the town. Essentially in the city, moreover, according to the emergency services, who carried out around a dozen interventions.
If, in the streets, the traces of the event consist mainly of piles of chopped leaves, and, in private homes, garages were flooded, schools and businesses were impacted. The Jules-Ferry school, first, where the firefighters pumped water into the reserves over an area of 100 m2. However, no consequences on the educational activity of the establishment.
A clothing store in the Moulin-Neuf commercial area, then, where following infiltration, the ground was flooded for 2 cm. The director, Sandrine Nunes, mentions 2,000 m2 impacted, between reserve and sales area. The store is closed for this day.
In the city center, a shoe store also announced that it was closed this morning to “clean up” following the storm. But after “one night of cleaning”, it reopened its doors.
Updated 12:25 p.m.: readers also reported a flood at the Pablo-Picasso school, in the La Rochotte district.
Updated 2:25 p.m.: the prefecture announced that Haute-Marne was, this Thursday, since 1 p.m., on yellow alert for “violent thunderstorms” (with hail and strong gusts of wind), and “from the end of the evening” on yellow alert for “rain -floods”.
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