Haute-Marne: impressive images of Saturday’s storms

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

Water flooded the entire department this Saturday, July 20. Fifteen departments were placed on orange alert for storms, and Haute-Marne suffered the most significant damage. The department's prefecture reported that five people were hospitalized, “mainly for hypothermia.” According to the same source, emergency services carried out 80 interventions due to the rising waters, which caused damage to roads, but also to homes. Around sixty homes are without electricity, “34 people have been éevacuated to the Sexfontaines village hall", and six departmental roads are still closed.

On social networks, residents of Haute-Marne shared images of the storms. They had taken refuge in their homes, helpless in the face of the force of the elements. Some even had to be evacuated because of the water reaching the houses. The inhabitants discovered, this Sunday morning, flooded streets, some destroyed walls and cars that had been moved by the water.

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.