Rivers reached very high levels on Sunday in the departments of Indre-et-Loire and Vienne, placed on red alert. More than 200 people had to be evacuated from their homes.
According to Vigicrues, the Creuse river reached 6.78 m at Roche-Posay, a town in the Vienne department, exceeding the historic flood of 1982. Downstream, 154 people, including 73 residents of an nursing home in the town of Île Bouchard, on the banks of Vienne.