[HIGHLIGHTS] Three floods in six months in Saintes: “It’s anxiety-inducing, I think about it all the time, as soon as the rain falls”

Three floods in six months in Saintes: “It’s anxiety-inducing, I think about it all the time, as soon as the rain falls”. The high tides expected on Sunday and for three days on the coast could complicate the evacuation of the Charente river towards the ocean.

“I’m crossing my fingers that it doesn’t go up any further,” breathes Marie-Claude Valuet. Bruno Drapron, the mayor of Saintes, wishes to integrate the “State experimentation project” initiated after the winter floods in Pas-de-Calais.