Judged on a bridge that dominates the Saint-Martin district in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Nadine Kerléan leans to observe the water swept below, this Sunday, January 26. The sixty -something man has “Never seen that”. The towpaths that line the canal have disappeared. Neighboring sports fields are drowned to the crossbar.
During the night of Saturday to Sunday, some 400 inhabitants living in streets and surrounding aisles were evacuated. The water has since infiltrated on the ground floor of certain residences. The dikes and retention basins built when renovating this district in the 2010s were not enough to prevent floods, but undoubtedly helped to avoid the worst.
Rennes had not experienced such floods since 1981, according to the town hall, which activated its communal safeguard plan like ten other cities of the agglomeration. Crossing by two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine, the Breton capital undergoes the repercussions of weeks of rain. At the beginning of January, several rivers in the department had already left their bed. Water -fired, the floors were unable to absorb what the Eowyn storms on Friday 24, then Herminia, the next day, spilled.
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