Wind gusts at more than 100 km/h and rain. He fell the equivalent of a month of precipitation in five days in Ille-et-Vilaine. The department had not known Such a flood situation since 1981. Dozens of homes and shops are flooded, especially in Rennes.
In a city district, fifteen houses were affected. The flood has surprised everyone, including Gilles who has lived here for several decades: “We have seen the water ride the bottom of the dead end with A disconcerting speed.”
Everyone tries to clean their basement. At Denis, water has mounted over a meter high in his garage. He launches his pump to reduce the water level: “We have a basement which is below the normal level of the road and the water is raised by capillarity. I have a lifting pump which did not not enough. ”
With his wife, he spent the night upstairs of his house in case the water comes to go up. It is the choice of most of its neighbors who barricaded themselves last night when he saw the rain again arriving. Note that Ile-et-Vilaine is still on orange alert. Rail traffic is also impacted. Until noon this Monday, Traffic is disrupted on TER Between Nantes and Angers.
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