Several Normandy towns were victims of significant flooding this Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. Eure, Calvados and Seine-Maritime are on orange alert.
Three Normandy departments, Eure, Calvados and Seine-Maritime, are placed on orange alert due to significant risks of flooding this Thursday, January 9. Since the night, several rivers have burst their banks and flooded roads, gardens and homes.
In Pont-L’Évêque, city services have activated a crisis unit since Wednesday. Several roads are blocked and completely impassable.
On the Honfleur side, it was the town presbytery which was completely flooded. The parish posted several photos on Facebook showing the exterior completely submerged. The water came inside the building.
The floods are sometimes very intense, and the water current very violent. In Gournay-en-Bray, for example, the Epte has completely burst its banks, and torrents of water are pouring into the streets of the town.
Dozens of firefighter interventions
These floods sometimes caused landslides, as in Anceaumeville, where an embankment collapsed onto a roadway on Wednesday evening.
Since Wednesday in Calvados, firefighters have intervened 83 times, following more than 880 calls. They were mainly concentrated in the Lisieux and Pont-l’Évêque sector.
In Eure, firefighters received 67 requests for assistance linked to the floods. In total, 85 firefighters were mobilized in the department.
No casualties have yet been reported in Normandy.
