The point on the situation – The Herminia depression, which caused the alert of several departments of western France, sweeps Brittany and the Atlantic coast, resulting in many disturbances.
Floods in Rennes, gusts at more than 100 km/h, the Village of Vendée Globe Closed, disturbed rail and road traffic: the herminia depression played the spoilsports Sunday in the west of the country. Herminia succeeds the Eowyn storm, of exceptional violence across the Channel and especially in Ireland. She has resulted in rains and gusts on the northwest of France, in areas where the floors are already saturated with water.
Météo-France has placed in raw red vigilance the Ille-et-Vilaine, while Finistère and Morbihan are on orange vague-submersion. The departments of Calvados, Eure, Orne, Mayenne of Maine-et-Loire are also placed in orange vigilance for floods. The water will continue to climb throughout the region, warned Vigicrues.
“After a slight lull of precipitation, the new rains on Sunday will generate new reactions on many rivers. On the rivers already in flood, new increases are expected ”said the flood information service in its latest bulletin. For Rennes, “It is the equivalent of 15 days of precipitation” Who could still fall, said the mayor of the city.
Le Figaro Take stock of the multiple disturbances caused by this violent meteorological phenomenon.
The city of Rennes partly flooded
In the Breton capital, crossed by two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine, “We are (on Sunday) to values that are higher than those that we found in 1981, which was a reference year of an important flood”commented the mayor, Nathalie Appéré, during a press point on Sunday morning.
The rise in the waters of the Ille and Rance canal led the town hall to take a four street evacuation decree on Saturday evening. About 400 inhabitants had to find refuge with relatives or in one of the three gymnasiums opened by the city. A crisis cell was opened at the town hall.
-“We made an evacuation order yesterday (Saturday) evening on four streets (…), dwellings which are behind a dike which normally protects them, and there the water has passed over the dike”said Nathalie Appéré. The sector has a hundred homes, according to the mayor.
Closure of the village of Vendée Globe
Further south, in Sables d’Olonne, the village of Vendée Globe, installed since the departure of the world tour on November 10, was closed to the public.
The skipper Benjamin Dutreux (Guyot Environnement), which finished on Sunday 10th in the race, had to take the direction of La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) to go to take shelter due to gusts of almost 130 km/h at wide from the Vendée city and a very agitated sea.
His prosecutor, the navigator Clarisse Crémer (L’Occitane), was also to take the direction of La Rochelle once the line was crossed between 9:00 p.m. and midnight, according to her team.
A British bucket disappeared off the Gironde
A 73 -year -old British bucket, who was sailing alone off the Gironde, is missing in the Atlantic, the maritime prefecture announced on Sunday. The sailboat sailing under the American pavilion had been located Friday evening at around 185 km west of the mouth of the Gironde estuary, despite meteorological alert, but its only occupant, a British septuagenarian, had indicated by radio to be Except and continue on its way.
His distress tag was however activated on Saturday afternoon about 80 km west of Lacanau (Gironde), resulting in the rescue intervention. “At 5.30 pm, the helicopter arrived in the area finds the sailboat ripped and its two divers who discover the empty raft”explained the Maritime Prefecture (Premar) of the Atlantic in a press release.
