The point on the situation – The Herminia depression which caused the alert of several departments of western France sweeps away from Brittany and the Atlantic coast, resulting in many disturbances.
A flood never seen for more than 40 years in Rennes, gusts at more than 100 km/h, the village of Vendée Globe Closed, rail and road traffic disturbed: depression Herminia played the spoilsport on Sunday in the west of country.
Herminia succeeds the Eowyn storm, of exceptional violence across the Channel and especially in Ireland. It has caused rains and gusts on northwestern France, in areas where the floors are already saturated with water. Météo-France has placed Orange Vents on the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées and the Rhône until Monday. Finistère and Côtes-d'Armor were demoted to yellow vigilance in the middle of the day.
The Morbihan will go to orange for rain-innon from 6 p.m. Sunday. Calvados, Ille-et-Vilaine, Mayenne and Orne will remain in raw orange vigilance until Monday. The water will continue to climb throughout the region, warned Vigicrues.
“After a slight lull of precipitation, the new rains on Sunday will generate new reactions on many rivers. On the rivers already in flood, new increases are expected ”said the flood information service in its latest bulletin. For Rennes, “It is the equivalent of 15 days of precipitation” Who could still fall, said the mayor of the city.
Le Figaro Take stock of the multiple disturbances caused by this violent meteorological phenomenon.
The city of Rennes partly flooded
In the Breton capital, crossed by two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine, “We are today (Sunday) to values which are higher than those that we had found in 1981, which was a reference year of an important flood”commented the mayor, Nathalie Appéré, during a press point on Sunday morning.
The rise in the waters of the Ille and Rance canal led the town hall to take a four street evacuation decree on Saturday evening. Residents are called upon to find refuge with relatives or in one of the three gymnasiums opened by the city. A crisis cell was opened at the town hall.
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“We made an evacuation order yesterday (Saturday) evening on four streets (…), dwellings which are behind a dike which normally protects them, and there the water has passed over the dike”said Nathalie Appéré. The sector has a hundred homes, according to the mayor. “Most people went to relatives (…) and we had 26 people welcomed this night” In one of the two gymnasiums, she added.
This district stuck between the Ille and Rance canal and the Ille had its feet in the water on Sunday.
-Closure of the village of Vendée Globe
Further south, in Sables d'Olonne, the village of Vendée Globe, installed since the departure of the world tour on November 10, was closed to the public.
According to a source close to the race management, the bad conditions could force the skippers Benjamin Dutreux and Clarisse Crémer, expected on Sunday, to shelter in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) or Lorient (Morbihan) once the line has been over the line From the Vendée city because the entrance to the port could be too dangerous.
Trains removed and road difficulties
Depression Herminia has also resulted in normandy trains, where gusts up to 110 km/h are expected, the SNCF announced.
Traffic, notably between Paris and Cherbourg and between Caen and Rennes, is expected to be disrupted on Sunday and Monday, warned the railway company.
Ditto in Brittany, with the suspension of traffic on the lines between Quimper and Landerneau since 8:30 am and between Rennes and Saint-Malo from 9 p.m.
Snow showers fell into the night in Mayenne, disturbing road traffic.
A British bucket disappeared off the Gironde
A 73 -year -old British bucket, who was sailing alone off the Gironde, is missing in the Atlantic, the maritime prefecture announced on Sunday. The sailboat sailing under the American pavilion had been located Friday evening at around 185 km west of the mouth of the Gironde estuary, despite meteorological alert, but its only occupant, a British septuagenarian, had indicated by radio to be Except and continue on its way.
His distress tag was however activated on Saturday afternoon about 80 km west of Lacanau (Gironde), resulting in the rescue intervention. “At 5.30 pm, the helicopter arrived in the area finds the sailboat ripped and its two divers who discover the empty raft”explained the Maritime Prefecture (Premar) of the Atlantic in a press release.
Despite the deployment of a Falcon 50 plane from the French Navy and a Caiman helicopter, as well as the confusion of two ships, the research was suspended “Lack of new elements” Around 01:30 in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
“The Atlantic Maritime Prefecture recalls the prudence instructions relating to navigation and the practice of water sports in winter with many depressions”she said.
