The water level remains very high. Météo France kept Indre-et-Loire and Vienne on red flood alert this Sunday morning.
In detail, two sections are affected by this red vigilance, according to Vigicrues: Creuse - Bec des Deux Eaux and Vienne Touraine. For these two sections, the flood is considered “significant”. “Damaging overflow levels were reached this Sunday morning,” adds Vigicrues, according to whom the level of the Touraine Vienne will continue to increase “in the coming hours.”
🔴 2 departments in Red
🔶 5 departments in Orange (https://t.co/CSYEovTI83) pic.twitter.com/hFLqgxzDWD
— VigiMétéoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) March 31, 2024
In a press release published on Saturday evening, the Vienne prefecture estimated that the peak of floods "on the Creuse river sector
(north of the department, editor's note)
should reach its peak between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m.
(this Sunday)
morning". Some evacuations took place in this department this Saturday, notably in the town of Montmorillon.
🔴Vigilance #Red floods in #Vienna86
Update on the situation at 10:30 p.m. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/k6cwEb6eZy
— Prefect of Vienne (@Prefet86) March 30, 2024
In Indre-et-Loire, the flood could approach that observed in 1913, in an area where more than 5,000 people could be affected by rising waters, the prefecture also announced on Saturday evening. In total, 34 municipalities are affected by the flood and have deployed their municipal protection plan, according to the prefecture, which specifies in a press release that a nursing home was being evacuated on Saturday evening in the municipality of Île Bouchard , on the banks of Vienna.
Charente, Charente-Maritime, Gironde and Dordogne are placed on orange flood alert this Sunday. The Alpes-Maritimes are placed on orange avalanche alert.