"It's a hell of a monsoon," exclaims an American Internet user on her Snapchat account, her eyes riveted on an Eiffel Tower shaken by lightning, "Oh my God, and I was stuck in the washing machine!".
On social networks, she is not the only one to have shared the impressive images of the bad weather that shook the Paris basin. An intense stormy episode hit the Ile de France in the evening of April 9. Paris was struck by lightning almost a hundred times, while very localized floods were identified in several municipalities.
In Vanves, several Internet users shared the impressive images of flooded streets and residents forced to climb on cars to protect themselves from the flood.
This precipitation should continue for the next few hours. Eighteen departments are placed Sunday in orange vigilance for rain-flood, with thunderstorms sometimes strong and heavy precipitation to fear in the Southwest, the Center and the Ile-de-France, indicates Météo-France.