At the end of the day, Monday April 1, Saône-et-Loire joined Yonne and Côte-d’Or on red alert for the risk of major flooding.
The Saône-et-Loire went on Monday evening to red alert for floods, joining the Côte-d’Or and the Yonne, while the heavy rain of recent days has caused rivers to swell and caused “floods”. exceptional.”
“Rainy episodes have been occurring in the country for several days” on “soils that are already very wet,” recalls the Vigicrues site in its 10 p.m. bulletin. “As a result, exceptional floods are observed on the Armançon and the Serein (Yonne and Côte-d’Or), as well as on the Arroux (Saône-et-Loire),” continues Vigicrues.
At the end of the afternoon, Monday April 1, Yonne and Côte-d’or were kept on red alert due to a major flood in the Armançon. Vigicrue warns of a “direct and widespread threat to the safety of people and property.”
Indre-et-Loire, maintained on “absolute vigilance” for 48 hours, switched to storm vigilance, in the Météo France bulletin, published at 3:56 p.m. Monday morning, a semblance of a return to normal was underway thanks to the decline of the Creuse. The prefecture announced at the end of the morning that “returning home is now possible in all sectors”. However, in Chinon (Indre-et-Loire), entire neighborhoods had to be urgently evacuated, relays TF1 info. Residents are waist-deep in water, and 370 of them have had to leave their homes since last night.
In addition to Indre-et-Loire, seven other departments were kept on orange alert on Monday evening: Saône-et-Loire, Charente-Maritime, Charente, Gironde, Dordogne, Bouches-du-Rhône and Gard.
Furthermore, “the avalanche activity of the night will gradually fade in the morning on the Mercantour and Haut-Var/Haut-Verdon massifs with the end of the precipitation. The precipitation decreased this Monday morning. We recorded more than 100 mm of precipitation over the episode for the Mercantour and Haut-Var/Haut-Verdon massifs. Avalanches were reported on certain road accesses in the Alpes-Maritimes including the access road to Isola 2000” specifies Météo France this morning .
According to France 3 and Le Populaire du Center, a kayaker was seen in difficulty on Saturday evening. Emergency services were alerted by witnesses around 4 p.m. yesterday in Aixe-sur-Vienne. After unsuccessful searches on ten kilometers of river, the device was lifted overnight and resumed on Sunday.
In the morning, the Haute-Vienne prefecture clarified that no one had reported the disappearance of this man and “none of the aforementioned witnesses saw the boat turn around”, reports TF1 info. However, the searches carried out by the gendarmerie continued this Monday morning, in an area now in decline and without particular vigilance. For the moment, searches “up to the border with Charente” by the gendarmerie, using a helicopter, remain in vain.
