Montmorillon (Vienna) was hit by violent and sudden floods at the end of March. The electric motor of the siren located on the roof of the town hall burned out.
The mayor decided to reactivate in parallel two old municipal sirens located at an old school and the media library. The bells of the Saint-Martial church, owned by the municipality, will also be used to alert the population of Montmorillon of the flooding in the town of 6,000 inhabitants. “It’s effective, especially at night,” argues Bernard Blanchet, who claims to have warned the parish priest “as a courtesy.” ‘No one believed in such floods anymore,’ says the mayor who now intends to reintroduce the culture of risk in MontMorillon. ‘Almost the entire city center’ was affected by the floods, says an elected official who saw the Gartempe rise by 25 to 30 centimeters per hour while the reference flood dated from 1982.