The floods in the Gard made their first victim.
The body of a man was found by firefighters on Monday in the Hérault river, after bad weather over the weekend, reports France 2. He is a municipal agent from Valleraugue (Gard), aged 56 .
Left for a run, he had been missing since Saturday.
Research is also continuing to try to find a 64-year-old woman who went missing on Saturday in the Cévennes mountains.
“We have a dog team in addition to the teams hired to scan the two banks of the Hérault around the point where the person was spotted before his disappearance.
A reconnaissance will also be made by helicopter ”, indicated Sunday the commander of the firefighters of Gard, Eric Agrinier.
The car of this caregiver was located, but found empty, according to Midi Libre.
"It would take a miracle to find her alive," Prefect Didier Lauga said on Sunday morning.
While the entire department has fallen back into the yellow vigilance zone, the emergency services resumed their interventions on Monday with the population, with some 500 households still deprived of electricity on the slopes of Mount Aigoual according to Enedis figures. .
Interventions are also planned to restore telephone lines in the municipalities of Saumane and Saint-André-de-Valborgne.
A rise in the water level of six meters
The prefect of Gard must go to the scene Monday morning, in order to meet the victims and assess the extent of the damage caused by the downpours on Saturday on the foothills of the Cévennes massif.
Swollen by the rains, rivers like the Gardon have experienced rapid flooding, rising six meters in two hours, forcing the authorities to evacuate several hundred people as a precaution.
"The mayors [...] must be able from tomorrow (Monday) and Tuesday to request a state of natural disaster," said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Sunday, during his trip to the town of Anduze with the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili.
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The so-called “Cevennes” bad weather episodes generally occur in the fall, when the Mediterranean Sea is the hottest, thus promoting strong evaporation.
These hot, humid and unstable air masses move northwards, causing heavy rains.
