The Gironde department remains placed on orange “flood” vigilance while 25 departments are now on yellow vigilance, after torrential rains which fell on the center-east and south-east of France.
Météo-France notes a “significant flood during high tides on the Garonne Dordogne confluence” in the “Bordeaux sector”, in its 10 a.m. bulletin.
Red vigilance lifted on Friday morning
Friday morning, the red “flood” vigilance had been lifted in the last four departments concerned, Rhône, Loire, Haute-Loire and Lozère, while 18 departments in the southern half remained affected by an orange “flood” vigilance or “rain-flood”.
In the Center-East, emergency services carried out 2,300 interventions during the bad weather considered to be the most violent episode in the Cévennes “in 40 years”, according to the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier.
The rains, which reached 600 to 700 millimeters in certain areas of Ardèche, caused three minor injuries in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. In Paris, a tree fell on a family, whose father did not survive, without the link with bad weather being formally established.
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