After the Eowyn storm, Brittany was struck by Herminia this Sunday.
Important precipitation led to the flood of several rivers including the Vilaine.
Sunday, in Ille-et-Vilaine, the city of Rennes was underwater.
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A flood never seen for more than 40 years in Rennes, gusts at more than 100 km/h, the village of Vendée Globe Closed, rail and road traffic disturbed: Depression Herminia plays the spoilsport on Sunday, January 26 in the ‘ West of France. In the Breton capital, crossed by two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine, the waters of the Ille and Rance canal continue to go up and dozens of houses have been flooded.
“I started to barricade, to put things in front of the doors. And I said to my mother, above all, you stay up, you don’t go out”says Guy, a resident confronted with the rise of waters, in the report at the top of this article. His mother will eventually be evacuated by the firefighters, while the canal which crosses the city continues its flood.
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Elected officials take the situation very seriously. “We are faced with a phenomenon that had not occurred for forty years. We think we are not yet at the peak for this sector”warns Nathalie Appéré, mayor of Rennes. The city councilor says that the levels noted this Sunday are “Higher than those found in 1981, which was a reference year of an important flood”. The town hall made an evacuation decree on Saturday evening for four streets, which concerns a hundred homes.
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Residents are called upon to find refuge with relatives or in one of the three gymnasiums opened by the city. A crisis cell has been opened. Herminia succeeds the Eowyn storm, of exceptional violence across the Channel and especially in Ireland. It has caused rains and gusts on northwestern France, in areas where the floors are already saturated with water. Météo-France has placed Orange Vents on the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées and the Rhône until Monday. Finistère and Côtes-d’Armor were demoted to yellow vigilance in the middle of the day.
The Morbihan will go to orange for rain-innon from 6 p.m. Sunday. Calvados, Ille-et-Vilaine, Mayenne and Orne will remain in raw orange vigilance until Monday. The water will continue to climb throughout the region, warned Vigicrues.
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