Bad weather in Burgundy: impressive rains and floods in Côte-d’Or and Saône-et-Loire

Météo France had placed Saône-et-Loire on orange “rain flood” alert on the night of Monday October 7 to Tuesday October 8 and this was justified. The organization even highlighted this Tuesday “remarkable intensity” of precipitation in the last 24 hours”. The rain fell heavily in the Saône-et-Loire, even coming close to 100 millimeters in Branges in Bresse. The south-east of the Côte-d’Or also fell found his feet in the water Bad news for. Saône-et-Loirethe department is now placed on orange “flood” alert.

Nearly a hundred interventions by firefighters in Saône-et-Loire

Saône-et-Loire firefighters had nearly a hundred interventions at midday on Tuesday following heavy rain overnight in the department. Several sectors were flooded but also premises such as Saint-Germain-du-Bois in Bresse where the medical center found itself with 20 cm of water in its premises. The bad news is that a new orange flood alert has been activated for the Saône et Loire for this Tuesday evening and Wednesday. We particularly monitor the Seille turning orange. The Saône is yellow at Verdun sur le Doubs. The level of the Bourbince also rose by more than two meters during the night from Monday to Tuesday and the Sernin also rose from its bed.

The South-East of the Côte-d’Or with its feet in the water

In Côte-d’Or, it was the South East of the department which found itself with its feet in the water around 7 a.m. as in Binges, in the hamlet of Morteuil, in Ruffey-lès-Beaune, but also in Mercueil where a dozen homes were affected. The village mayor, Evelyne Careira-Chambrey describes an extraordinary situation experienced on the morning of Tuesday.

“The rivers have overflowed, the ditches too. The manholes are no longer keeping up. It’s very fast. The road to the center of the village is blocked but the cars continue to pass, so we’re going to put barriers back in. The firefighters are helping us said that we had to wait because as it continues to rain, there is no point in them intervening. There are a few residents, single people who are worried. Some have damaged appliances, swimming pools under water. swimming pool pumps under water There is damage to people with water entering the basements. explains the elected official, a little distraught.

Very heavy rains in Branges

It was therefore especially in Saône-et-Loire, in the Bresse sector that it rained heavily during the night from Monday to Tuesday. “Around 2 or 3 a.m., we started to have overflowing ditches and reaches. They were loaded in a quite impressive way with phenomena that we had not yet seen at this level. So there are a lot of flooded cellars near the Seille, garages, entrances where the water has penetrated several times at the end of the night and early in the morning. explains the mayor, Anthony Vadot, who saw a succession of stormy weather during the night with torrential rains which lasted a long time.