In Rennes, the rise of the waters of the Saint-Martin canal led the town hall to take on Saturday evening an evacuation decree for four streets located near the Ille river.
Strong rains and violent winds disrupt rail and road traffic Sunday morning in the regions affected by the herminia depression and floods led the city of Rennes to evacuate several streets.
The departments of Finistère, Côtes-d’Armor, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques des Hautes-Pyrénées and the Rhône have been placed in orange wind alert since 8:00 am.
The Morbihan will be at the same level of vigilance for rain-rowing from 6:00 p.m., until at least 11:00 p.m. Calvados, Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne have been for floods since Saturday. The Orne was added to the list Sunday morning.
In Rennes, the rose of waters of the Ille canal led the town hall to take on Saturday evening an evacuation order for four streets located near the Ille river.
In the Breton capital, “We are today (Sunday) to values which are higher than those that we had found in 1981, which was a reference year of an important flood“, commented the mayor of the city, Nathalie Appéré, during a press point on Sunday morning.
Residents are called upon to find refuge with relatives or in one of the two gymnasiums opened by the city with the Red Cross. A crisis cell was opened at the town hall.
-“We made an evacuation order yesterday (Saturday) evening on four streets in the Motte-Brûlon sector, because it is dwellings that are behind a dike which normally protects them, and there the water has passed to -the dike“, She said, believing that the water could continue to climb into the course of the day.
The sector has a hundred homes, according to the mayor. “”Most of the people went to relatives, some chose not to stay, and we had 26 people welcomed tonight“In one of the two gymnasiums,” she added.
Depression Herminia has also led to several trains cuts in Normandy, where gusts up to 110 km/h are expected, the SNCF announced.
Traffic, notably between Paris and Cherbourg and between Caen and Rennes, is expected to be disrupted on Sunday and Monday, warned the railway company.
On Saturday, an important rescue device had to be deployed to assist six kayakers dispersed by the Eowyn storm off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). They were recovered safe and sound at the beginning of the evening, according to the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture.
Depression Herminia Depression Evacuations Flood France
