“I’m tired. It’s fed up. If we flood tonight, it will be four times. » Marie-Josée, 57 years old, lives with her husband and three children in a house a hundred meters from the Grand Morin river, in a hamlet of Pommeuse, a town of 2,900 inhabitants, in the north-east of the Seine- and-Marne. The family has already been flooded three times this year. The last one was on the night of September 26 to 27. “What happened that day was impressive,” describes Stéphane, her husband. “And in half an hour!” » adds Marie-Josée.
In their home, the food is locked in stacked transparent plastic crates. Everything that could be moved, protected and raised up was, or almost, done. Only the hot water tank and the boiler have not been moved. They placed sandbags at the back of the building and a board at the bottom of the front door. Storm Kirk will soon hit the department with its torrential rains. This Wednesday around 4 p.m., Grand Morin was already on red flood alert. Unheard of since the great flood of 2016.
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