Hundreds of people have been evacuated in Ile de France, while 13 departments in the basins of the Seine, Saône and their tributaries remain on orange alert as flood waters continue to rise.
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges les pieds dans l'eau (vidéo) #CrueSeine https://t.co/DKV8Nnae6e pic.twitter.com/nDUeRWm0Hd
— viàGrandParis (@viagrandparis) January 25, 2018
A total 150 of the 395 evacuees due to the floods are currently staying at a sports hall in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne, a town at the confluence of the Yerres and Seine rivers. Meanwhile, some 14,000 homes are without power.
#intervention : Attention péniche !
— Pompiers de Paris (@PompiersParis) January 25, 2018
Cet après-midi, une vingtaine de pompiers comprenant des plongeurs et des spécialistes de la recherche et du sauvetage en milieu urbain ont sécurisé une péniche à Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (94). pic.twitter.com/3tiwSi3itX
National forecaster Meteo-France lists Aube, Eure, Jura, Marne, Saône-et-Loire, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Yonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne and Val-d' Oise as being on orange alert, with river levels still rising.
A further seven - Ardèche, Aveyron, Cantal, Loire, Haute-Loire, Lozère and Puy-de-Dôme - are on orange alert for snow and ice.
In Paris, the Seine, which had reached 5.62m shortly after 6.30am on Friday at its official measuring point on the pont Austerlitz, and is expected to keep rising throughout the day before peaking between 5.8m and 6.2m over the weekend, flood monitor Vigicrues said.
⚠️ Crue de la #Seine ⚠️
— Paris (@Paris) January 23, 2018
Le niveau de la Seine continue à monter.
Restons prudent.e.s.
Nous vous donnons le détail des tunnels et voies fermés https://t.co/3nvt9QZo6u pic.twitter.com/bJhxQ2hn3B
In 1910, the Seine reached 8.6m.
The Zouave, said Zouave Bridge Alma, is a stone statue of Georges Diebolt dating from 1856, one of four sculptures representing the troops who participated in the Crimean War, initially fixed on the stacks of the old bridge of Alma in Paris, and the only one that remains today pic.twitter.com/9J2nw5csbI
— colimi (@colimi85731779) January 25, 2018
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