Things accelerated at the beginning of the afternoon, this Wednesday, October 9. Météo France had announced it, torrential rains fell on the Loire-Atlantique, placed on orange vigilance. Particularly in the Pays de Retz. In the last six hours, the Pornic station received 35.3 mm of water, indicates Météo France in its 1 p.m. bulletin.
In Pornic, in fact, departmental road 213, nicknamed the Blue Route, is cut off due to flooding. This very busy road connects Saint-Nazaire to Villeneuve-en-Retz, via Pornic, La Bernerie-en-Retz, Les Moutiers-en-Retz. “Motorists are at a standstill, completely blocked and the firefighters are starting to arrive”says a resident. At 3:30 p.m., a gap was opened on the Route bleue so that cars that had been stopped for an hour and a half could leave the main road.
La Bernerie-en-Retz is not spared either. The seaside resort is under water, as evidenced by the images of rue Jeanne d’Arc, near the cemetery, where cars have difficulty passing. Same fight on rue de la Mer, where the road is completely flooded.
In Saint-Viaud, the ditches overflow and the main streams (Mabon, Cantine, Aumondière) have overflowed their beds, with “the usual flooding points: Lande, Mazure, Cantin, Massiais, Ternais, Epingle, Foucauderie and Guinerais”indicates the town hall on its Facebook page. The municipality has used all its diversion signs, it encourages Vitaliens not to take their cars.
The flooded leisure center, the leisure center (ALSH) and the children were evacuated to the Lake room. “The extracurricular will undoubtedly be relocated tomorrow morning to the same place”indicates the town hall on social networks.
