“We missed the worst”: residents evacuated, streets flooded… in Chinon, an Easter weekend at the end of the anxiety. “I have never seen Vienna so impetuous and spectacular, ” admits a new resident of this town of 8,000 inhabitants.

In its suburban neighborhood, the town hall had requisitioned the gymnasium of a high school, capable of accommodating around a hundred people in the event that the situation worsened. The decline of the Vienne began slowly, early Monday morning.