“We are down to the nearest millimeter of rainfall.
» Michael Rousseau, the mayor (SE) of
Jouy-sur-Morin
, monitors the weather like milk on fire.
It would only take ten millimeters of rain for the streets of his town to be invaded by water again.
“All the fields are waterlogged.
We are really at risk.
»
This Tuesday, the Grand Morin, usually a pretty and bouncy river 118 km long - including 77 km in Seine-et-Marne - which crosses the town of 2,100 inhabitants, burst its banks.
Result: 60 cm of water in the lowest point of the town center and up to 1.50 m in a Sainfouin hamlet, “very close to Morin”.
From 11:30 a.m., the town hall opened a fallback center.
Sixty-five people were evacuated, including 55 migrants housed in a center administered by the Red Cross.
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