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France floods: Red alerts issued in several regions as floodwaters overcome city streets
The French flood-alert system covers 81 departments and monitors 154 rivers amid record soil saturation from a month of relentless rain, officials said.
- On Saturday, red alerts were issued across several regions in France as floodwaters ran into city streets, triggering national flood-alert notices.
- Because soils are saturated over the past month, Vigicrues director of the French flood-alert agency said soil moisture reached a record high since 1959, reducing infiltration capacity.
- Officials warned of unprecedented scope, noting 81 departments in alert for 154 rivers, with continuous orange or red alert levels for 30 days across the country.
- Authorities say soils have lost infiltration capacity, producing a generalised flood situation as reactive waterways quickly respond to new precipitation, increasing short-term risk to communities and emergency services.
- The flood-alert system is operating at record pace amid prolonged rainfall, with alerts persisting across departments and 30 days of high-level warnings, Vigicrues said.
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The phenomenon of “generalised flooding” affecting France goes beyond “all the records”, stated Saturday for AFP the director of the Vigicrues service, stating that it is not expected to be “a normal return in the next few days”.
In an interview with the AFP, the director of Vigicrues goes back on precipitation in France. She describes "an exceptional situation", due to cumulative rains for two months. - Crues: all the records "exceeded", according to the director of Vigicrues (Weather and weather).
France has been "for 30 days in a row without discontinuing in (vigilance) orange or red" raw, according to the director of Vigicrues, who speaks of "generalised flood". And this is not over...
The phenomenon of "generalised flood" that affects France exceeds "all (the) records", said this Saturday the director of Vigicrues service, who speaks of "an exceptional situation".
As proof of the exceptional situation of the current floods in the south-western part of the country, Vigicrues' director said this Saturday that "all" the weather service's "records" have been beaten.
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