Reindeer underwater
Credit : City of Rennes
Depression Herminia caused strong winds this Sunday, the gusts reached 158 km/h in Ouessant, 136 km/h in Penmarc'h, 125 km/h in Belle-Ile as on the island of Yeu (124); 116 km/h in Brest and 98 km/h in Lannion.
A hundred interventions in Finistère
In Finistèrethe firefighters carried out more than 150 interventions including 100 in connection with the storm. They were more than 160 mobilized, and the prefecture identified two wounded, without gravity. A thousand households are privately private …
In Morbihanthe Saint-Eloi river has come out of its bed: also the road to Vannes is closed and a deviation via the RN 165 is in place, this Monday the links will be disturbed towards Groix, Houat, Hoedic and in the Rade de Lorient.
In the Côtes d'Armormany rains on the side of Lanvallay and Dinan where the inhabitants of the banks of Rance woke up with water a few meters from their house or in their garden.
Ille-et-Vilaine underwater, 400 evacuations
But it was in Ille-et-Vilaine that depression caused strong floods: The department has faced an episode of historic floods since Saturday (January 25), with record levels in places! After a lull of a few hours this Sunday, new rains are expected this night and the water will therefore continue to go up.
The firefighters received more than 700 calls yesterday causing fifty outings. Some 400 people were evacuated by prevention. In the Bellangerais district, soccer fields have become lakes.
According to Emmanuelle Rousset, elected Rennes in charge of social dialogue, “The houses were not affected because the water is on the other side, where the arrangements are well made since we have spaces for absorbing floods, which make it first the football stages which were flooded. The natural spaces are used for that but there are a few homes that have still been affected, and it is watched closely by both residents and by the authorities. “
-Solidarity has played well at Bellangerais
An emergency reception center was open at the Jules Isaac gymnasium, but the solidarity of residents made it possible to close the place: “People were evacuated last night by the authorities and they could be relocated. The city opened gymnasiums, but it will close and we will send people to the Prouf gymnasium, near freedom. Here, for the moment, there are not many needs so we concentrate our strengths to welcome in good conditions on the other gymnasium. “
At the Constant Veron gymnasium, the night on Saturday was particularly intense but calm seemed returned this Sunday, during the inventory made by Dominique Volunteer at the Red Cross. “We received an alert last night and we were warned at the Red Cross. This is very calm but the peak was to be this morning, then tonight and now they say on Wednesday. We stay pending but it could deteriorate in the hours, and the days to come. The youth hostel has been evacuated because it is underwater. Many people from the hostel have come here … “
The peak has not yet been reached and the decline will not be done before Wednesday according to the mayor of Rennes, Nathalie Appéré, who had activated the city's safeguard plan on Saturday. Two emergency reception centers remain open at the Constant-Véron gymnasium and the Jean-Prouff gymnasium.
The boats are on the verge of ending the sidewalk
Romaric is homeless, he lived near the bridge where the floods were the most violent: “The boats are on the verge of finishing on the sidewalk! The road is blocked and the whole street that rises to the northern cemetery is completely flooded. For cars, it's the same, the tunnel is completely impracticable. In fact, it's filled with water, more than a 50 meter of water! I live outside so I can't access it and everything has taken the water : The mattresses have taken the water, the blankets have taken the water, just like electronics … We find ourselves without anything and we are there, at the gymnasium, but we are well loti! “
For local residents faced with a rise in water in the key sector, concrete blocks can be borrowed in order to raise the most exposed goods. Two trucks from the city of Rennes are parked for this purpose in front of the 30 rue du Canal.
Traffic conditions promise to be difficult
In Ille and Vilaine, the traffic conditions will be very difficult this (Monday) morning. Many roads, especially around Rennes, will be cut and deflected. The RN24 was diverted in the Rennes / Lorient direction up to Mordelles, before a single route is reopened at the end of the day. In the other direction, the situation is uncertain since the left way had to be neutralized this weekend.
Not far away, in Mayenneseveral areas are flooded near the Mayenne river in the Laval, Mayenne and Château Gontier sectors. Forty firefighters were hired this Sunday, for security or evacuation operations, and certain roads are closed.
