1,500 forced from homes by French floods
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THE worst flooding in southern France for more than a decade has forced more than 1,500 people to evacuate their homes, officials said yesterday.
“Between 800 and 1,000 people” were evacuating mid-Sunday from homes along the banks of the Agly river in the Pyrenees-Orientales region, the government office said.
The flooding was more serious than deadly overflows in 1999 and “we are evacuating residents within 200 meters of either side of the river,” the government said.
Another 391 people had left their homes in Canet, Argeles-sur-Mer and Barcares, on the Mediterranean coast.
“I’m 42 and I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Kristel Gregori, who lives in Argeles, near the Massane, a stream which has turned into a 20-meter wide deluge inundating dozens of parked cars.
The river Berre had also flooded, reaching heights a metre above the level seen in flooding in 1999 that left 35 people dead and one missing in the region. About 250 people evacuated from Sigean, located in an area of low-lying land and lagoons just south of Narbonne.
Southern France has been hit by weeks of successive storms and flooding.
Four people died and two remained missing in southeastern France after violent storms on Thursday and Friday triggered flash flooding.
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