Very heavy rainfall has fallen over a large part of the country since October 17, causing impressive flooding, particularly in Ardèche. BFMTV has drawn up a map of the areas most affected by rain over the last two days. Vialas, in Lozère, comes first ahead of Mayres, a small Ardèche town.
The data provided by Météo-ciel and Météo-France allowed BFMTV to establish a precise map of the territories most affected by the intense rainy episodes of recent days. While five departments are still on orange alert due to the risk of flooding in their respective rivers, it appears that the Cévennes and the Ardèche terrain are the areas most affected by bad weather. The Alpes-Maritimes and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques were also strongly affected.
But it is in Lozère that the town with the sad record for cumulative rainfall is located: Vialas, a town of less than 500 inhabitants, where a cumulative amount of 711 mm was recorded between October 16 and 17. Second on the podium: Mayres, a small town of 257 inhabitants in Ardèche, with a cumulative 686 mm of rain in 48 hours. Concretely, illustrates BFMTV, “if this rain had fallen evenly over an area of one square meter, the water line would be 68.6 centimeters above the ground“.
“A trauma”
On Friday, Prime Minister Michel Barnier spoke from the Operational Center for Interministerial Crisis Management: “We have not experienced, in living memory and service, an episode of such violence in the Cévennes for 40 years. It’s a trauma“, he declared, affirming that the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau “will activate the natural disaster process in the municipalities affected by this Cévennes episode“so that “compensation can be implemented for those affected“.
A promise also kept by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in the morning.
published on October 18 at 5:13 p.m., Sabrina Guintini, 6Médias
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