Severe floods have hit the French Southwest town of Saintes (Charente-Maritime) for the 3rd time in simply six months.
Severe floods have hit southwest France, the 3rd time in simply six months.
Charente-Maritime is now on orange alert, following Pas-de-Calais and Gironde.
In Saintes, the river Charente is as soon as once more overflowing its banks. It is inconceivable to transport about within the streets with out beams. This state of affairs is being repeated simply 3 months after the ultimate flood, which affected hundreds of houses.
It’s “unbelievable”, stated one resident on Monday, who admitted that he was once “fed up”. He is going to test on a neighbour who had fifty centimetres of water in her area originally of December.
The flood must achieve its height on Friday, when the water degree is anticipated to succeed in 5.85 metres. Up to 200 properties might be flooded.
The mayor of the commune is thinking about answers for long term floods.
“In this street, we’ll probably have to buy some houses and knock them down to make it easier for the water to drain away. Maybe, upstream, we’ll have to build some reservoirs, I don’t know… Obviously, we’ll have to build cofferdams (flood barriers), we’ll try to find effective cofferdam systems,” defined Bruno Drapron, the mayor of Saintes.
Extreme climate in Alpine area
Extreme climate has introduced avalanches, storms, sturdy winds and landslides to Italy and France.
A 16-year-old boy died after being hit by way of an avalanche whilst snowboarding in southern Italy.
The avalanche chance within the house stands at degree 3, or “considerable”, at the European avalanche risk scale. The boy is the second one individual to be killed by way of an avalanche within the area in fresh days.
More than 6,000 other folks dwelling in 3 villages within the Gressoney house of the Aosta valley, the Alpine area close to the French border, had been remoted since Sunday on account of avalanches, which additionally blocked a tunnel.
Thunderstorms and winds of greater than 100km/h brought on landslides within the Liguria area on Italy’s north-west coast.
