“The Cévennes episode is over.” Red vigilance for “floods” was lifted on Friday October 18 in the last four departments concerned, Rhône, Loire, Haute-Loire and Lozère, Météo-France announced in its bulletin published at 6 a.m. Eighteen departments in the southern half remain affected by an orange “flood” or “rain-flood” alert, specifies the weather forecast agency. “A few showers are still possible, but not comparable to the rainy episode of the last two days”adds Météo-France. Follow our live stream.
Eighteen departments on orange alert. In detail, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the Aples-Maritimes, the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Gard, the Landes, the Loire, the Haute-Loire, the Puy-de-Dôme and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques remain on alert for the risk of flooding. Ariège, Dordogne, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne are still affected by the risk “rain-flood”.
The Minister of Ecological Transition expected in the Loire and Ardèche. Agnès Pannier-Runacher must go to the Loire and Ardèche on Friday. She mentioned a situation “unprecedented in its scale. 600 millimeters of water on the Ardèche is unheard of in living memory” and linked “these episodes of climate change”.
Significant damage in Ardèche. The department was particularly affected since “nearly 50% of what falls per year” fell on the Cévennes and the Annonay basin, assured the prefect of the department Sophie Elizéon. “There are flooded towns, and even a certain number of villages which are cut into several parts and which are not connected”she said on franceinfo on Thursday. She counted three minor injuries and assured that schools would remain closed on Friday.
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