Thursday morning, 18,000 customers were still without electricity in Alsace and Franche-Comté, according to Enedis.
A risk of “strong to exceptional” flooding on the Grand Morin river, a sub-tributary of the Seine, justified the placement of Seine-et-Marne on red alert, according to Vigicrues. School transport is suspended on Thursday in the department, and the A5B motorway is closed near Evry-Grégy sur Yerres due to flooding, indicates the prefecture.
In addition to Seine-et-Marne, confirmed on red alert for Thursday, Météo France maintained six departments on Orange flood alert, according to the bulletin published at 6:00 a.m.
Orange wind vigilance has been lifted in all the departments concerned (Territoire-de-Belfort, Haute-Saône, Doubs) as well as flood vigilance in the Alpes-Maritimes.
There, several rivers flirted with their alert threshold during the night but the trend is towards decline. As a precaution, residents of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Fontan were evacuated and several roads threatened with flooding remained closed in the morning.
– Difficulties in “limited” transport –
At the end of a crisis meeting in Paris, the Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher highlighted the mobilization of “all state services”.
“These episodes will be repeated. We are in a moment where climate change is concretely reflected in our daily lives,” she stressed to the press.
According to the Minister for Transport François Durovray, the difficulties at the end of the day on Wednesday remained “limited”, with in particular “a few diverted planes”.
For its part, the SNCF carried out localized traffic interruptions at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday in order to guarantee the safety of travelers and staff, particularly in New Aquitaine, Loire" rel="tag">Pays de la Loire and Rhône-Alpes.
Thursday morning, traffic was notably interrupted between Besançon and Belfort, and between Dole and Besançon, due to falling trees on the tracks.
The equivalent of a month of rain had been forecast for Wednesday alone on a route from Vendée to Champagne-Ardenne.
In Noirmoutier-en-l’île, in Vendée, the hospital center was affected by a flood. Many roads were flooded in many sectors of the department. Firefighters carried out more than 130 interventions.
The heavy rainfall caused flooding of the A11 motorway towards Paris in the town of Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), leading to a cutting of this lane, according to Bison Futé.
In Pays-de-la-Loire, flooding affected the tracks between Saint-Nazaire and Le Croisic, Nantes and Pornic as well as between Nantes and Saint-Gilles, interrupting rail traffic in places.
– 211 km/h in the Pyrenees –
In Loire-Atlantique, 22 roads were totally or partially cut, according to the departmental council, and firefighters carried out 456 interventions, mainly for flooding, and 89 municipalities were affected, the south of the Nantes conurbation being particularly affected.
In New Aquitaine, a strong gale occurred, particularly on the western summits of the Pyrenees: according to Météo France, gusts of 211 km/h were recorded in the area of the ski resort of ‘Iraty (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
At the end of the wettest month of September in 25 years, the average annual precipitation totals have already been exceeded almost everywhere in mainland France.
September was also marked on a global scale by “extreme precipitation”, exacerbated by the abnormally hot temperatures on the planet for more than a year, a consequence of climate change, according to the European Copernicus observatory.
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