"There's mud, furniture is floating": Pas-de-Calais faces historic floods, and "it's still rising... »
11/11/2023, 8:02:18 PM
Highlights: "There's mud, furniture is floating": Pas-de-Calais faces historic floods, and "it's still rising... ». A total of 247 municipalities have been or are still affected by these historic floods. "When I woke up on Saturday, the water had invited itself into the dining rooms. This time, there was no choice but to evacuate," says one resident. "It's still going up... " says a resident of Blendecques, near Saint-Omer.
Despite a lull, some of the inhabitants of Pas-de-Calais are still on the water's edge, while evacuations continue, including the evacuation of the
"It's still going up... In Blendecques, near Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais region, the inhabitants of the 8-May-1945 district watched helplessly as a desolate spectacle unfolded: that of water invading the streets and seeping everywhere. When they went to bed on Friday night, the threat of flooding still seemed distant, uncertain. When I woke up on Saturday, the water had invited itself into the dining rooms. This time, there was no choice but to evacuate. A total of 247 municipalities have been or are still affected by these historic floods.
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