LIVE – Floods in Pas-de-Calais: schools closed Monday and Tuesday in 279 municipalities

60 roads were still cut in the department, according to the latest report from the prefecture published at midday.

The prefect of Pas-de-Calais has set up a unit dedicated to agricultural issues in the department.

If you have any questions, farmers can contact 03.21.22.98.20 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

The prefect of Pas-de-Calais invites municipalities to apply for recognition of a natural disaster using the accelerated procedure.

If the natural disaster is recognized, residents who suffered damage may be compensated.

In a report published this midday, the Pas-de-Calais prefecture announces that precipitation is expected this afternoon.

“5 to 10 mm this afternoon, 15 mm overnight from Sunday to Monday, 15 mm during the day Monday and 10 mm in the coastal basins on Tuesday,” she specifies.

“This rain will fall on soils which are saturated and could cause the level of watercourses to rise again, which remain very reactive,” adds the prefecture.

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The prefect of Pas-de-Calais decides to keep schools closed on Monday and Tuesday in 279 municipalities.

In detail, “public and private educational establishments will be closed, namely nurseries (with the exception of hospital nurseries), nursery schools, primary schools, middle schools and high schools located in the 279 municipalities listed in the “prefectural decree in annex until Tuesday November 14 inclusive”, specifies the prefecture, in a new situation update, this midday.

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New situation update for the Pas-de-Calais prefecture. The latter indicates in particular that at midday, 1,272 homes were without electricity, including 800 in Audomarois and 150 in Calaisis.

Since the start of the floods in Pas-de-Calais, insurers have been hard at work advising victims.

“Taking photos is indeed a good measure. Today, we really need to call the services as quickly as possible, even if the situation is not yet stabilized. We are able, for the moment and it’s the reassuring side despite these difficult events, to respond to everyone”, declares Thibault de Bonnaventure, director of the north-east region of AXA France.

The director of the north-east region of AXA France indicates that visits to help “a large part of the customers” have already been put in place.

Pas-de-Calais is no longer on red flood alert since Sunday morning and joins three other departments in orange, according to Météo-France.

Still on red alert during the night, the Aa river turned orange again at 6 a.m.like the Canche earlier, while the Liane appears in yellow.

After 48 hours of calm, the rains are expected to return on Sunday evening to the still flooded department, risking jeopardizing the start of recession observed on Saturday.

A unit dedicated to agricultural issues has been set up in the Pas-de-Calais department at the request of the prefect, open to all farmers and agri-food professionals.

Another crisis unit is open to answer questions from companies concerning the use of partial activity or the possibilities of derogation from working hours. Forty-eight companies have already requested recourse to partial activity, underlines the prefecture.

Yesterday evening, many residents of Pas-de-Calais were still heavily impacted by bad weather and were deprived of one or more services.

Several tanks have been installed to help the 7,200 people affected by restrictions on water use, particularly in the Samer and Doudeauville sectors.

800 homes were also without electricity: 350 were in Boulonnais, 200 in Audomarois and 50 in Montreuillois. Finally, 5,000 customers were cut off from mobile telephony and 2,800 from fixed telephony and internet.

Hello and welcome to this live dedicated to the floods which have been affecting Pas-de-Calais for several days now.