Haute-Marne: five people hospitalized after the floods

The department had beené placed on orange alert for thunderstorms. The prefecture announces that five people have been arrested. hospitalized, particularly for hypothermia. The material damage is heavy at a high level. cause of rising water levels.

Water invaded the entire department this Saturday, July 20. Fifteen departments were placed on orange alert for thunderstorms, and it was Haute-Marne which suffered the most significant damage . The department's prefecture reports that five people were killed. hospitalized, "mainly for hypothermia". According to the same source, emergency services carried out the attack. 80 interventions à cause of rising water levels, which caused damage on the roads, but also in houses. Around sixty homes are deprived of electricity, and 34 people have been affected. evacuated to the Sexfontaines village hall, and six departmental roads are still cut off.

It must be said that this "éintense stormy episode", predicted by Météo-France, resulted in n&eac; torrential rains. Between Bologna, Marault, Annéville-la-Prairie and Meures, "he fellé ten times more rain in one hour than during a “normal episode”, informed the prefecture around one in the morning.

The Departmental Council of Haute-Marne, as for him, mentions a stormy episode that occurred around 11 p.m. in the Bologna sector, where "The damage was significant with more than a meter of water in the streets then in the houses in a few minutes".

Risks remain

Météo-France has put an end to the alert around 2 a.m. Although orange vigilance is lifted throughout France, state services specify that, “the soils” are waterlogged ;s d'water" After this rainy episode, any intense precipitation could lead to severe precipitation. "a rapid rise in water levels". Rain is expected for Sunday, with thunderstorms in the evening, but precipitation should be over.