Many roads were closed to traffic by flooding Monday, February 1 in the southwest in flood vigilance, mainly in the Landes and Gironde, after the rains of the last days related to the storm Justine, and overflows are expected until see you on Tuesday.
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In the Landes, 56 roads, especially secondary departmental axes, were cut Monday at midday, 17 more than the day before, according to a report from the departmental road coordination.
About fifty other roads remained under surveillance.
The Landes firefighters have carried out more than 80 outings in around forty municipalities since the start of the Justine phenomenon, mainly non-serious interventions for clearing trees on the track, and drying up of premises.
In several municipalities such as Tartas, Ondres, Luxey, neighborhoods had their feet in the water.
On Sunday, a person was slightly injured by a fall from a tree on his house in Saint-Sever.
The TGV Paris-Hendaye rail axis to Spain, interrupted for most of Sunday between Dax and Morcenx by a rise in the water table submerging the tracks, was operational again on Monday, although at idle in the Rion-des- sector. Landes.
In Bordeaux, around thirty lanes or streets were briefly cut off to traffic early Monday morning, causing traffic jams at rush hour while the Garonne overflowed on the quays, under the effect of a high tide peak, still sensitive in town although 100 km from the mouth.
On the rest of the Gironde, at least 35 roads were closed to traffic at the beginning of the afternoon, around fifteen in the neighboring Lot-et-Garonne.
Landes, Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne are among 21 departments, most in a large south-western quarter, in vigilance orange floods or rains-floods, with trends still increasing Monday on several rivers and streams, overflows expected, also in the Dordogne, and new precipitation expected until Tuesday.