An “urgent” call for donations launched by Restos du Coeur
The Restos du Cœur Audomarois, Calaisis, Dunkerquois and Flanders Interior launched an “urgent appeal yesterday for food donations and for volunteers and people of good will to distribute the clothes, blankets and food that we have or will collect”.
To find out where to take your donations, or participate as a volunteer, you must contact 03 28 69 69 88.
More information here.
“The road will be long”: the mayor of Arras assures that we must “stand alongside the victims”
On BFM Grand Lille this morning, Frédéric Leturque, mayor of Arras, assures that the “road will be long” for reconstruction after these repeated floods.
“We know that hundreds of millions of euros, even several billion, will be essential to rebuild all these damaged sectors. There are necessarily residents, families who are affected but also businesses, farmers, various activities.” explains the councilor.
For Frédéric Leturque, “the most important message is to be alongside all the victims”. “This is unheard of and this unheard of shocks us. It calls for solidarity,” he ends.
“We thought it was the end and not finally”: the weariness of the mayor of Hesdigneul-lès-Boulogne
The mayor of Hesdigneul-lès-Boulogne expressed his dismay on BFMTV this morning.
“There was a lull on Saturday with the sun, people cleaned the houses, the roads. We thought it was the end and no finally, as soon as there is heavy rainfall, we are flooded again” , deplores Yves Hennequin, mayor of Hesdigneul-lès-Boulogne.
“The water recedes and as soon as the precipitation starts again, the rivers overflow,” he finishes.
In Guines, insurance companies refuse to compensate the president of an animal shelter
The Nature du Marais educational park, an animal shelter in Guines, was submerged by water on November 4.
Vegetable gardens, beekeeping, greenhouses for birds… The entire area is submerged under several tens of centimeters of water. Of the 200 animals on the educational farm, 155 were evacuated in time.
If the insurance companies told him that the damage to his house, located in the middle of the park, would be well compensated, they will not give a single cent to cover the repairs of the shelter.
More information in our article.
Reinforcements from the Red Cross and the civil protection of Bas-Rhin as reinforcements
Reinforcements from Bas-Rhin arrived in Pas-de-Calais to help the victims.
For the Red Crossthe first volunteers arrived during the night from Sunday to Monday to participate, among other things, in the operation of emergency accommodation centers, collection and sorting, the distribution of equipment and meals and the cleaning of affected homes.
“We are really faced with people who are in need who have a lot of personal effects destroyed, it’s really a very touching operation for us, which we take to heart”, testifies Léo, a volunteer from Colmar, at BFM Alsace.
For its part, Civil Protection sent a team of three vehicles and 6 volunteers yesterday, including a truck and a canoe.
A lull expected today before the rain returns
The inhabitants of Pas-de-Calais will observe a lull today with dry and sunny weather but it will be short-lived.
“Unfortunately it deteriorates again during the evening, the clouds return to cover the sky tomorrow and for tomorrow, more rain is expected,” detailed Patrick Marlière on BFM Grand Lille.
“The situation will improve a little but rain will continue all day tomorrow, a slight lull for Friday before the precipitation resumes for this Saturday and especially next week,” he adds.
For the meteorologist, “we will have a lot of difficulty getting out of this flood situation completely within ten days.”
No more watercourses on red alert, the Liane returns to orange
No rivers are on red alert today. The Liane turned orange again this morning, according to Vigicrues.
Hem, Aa, Lys plaine and Canche are also on orange alert.
In Hesdigneul-lès-Boulogne, “we clean, we are evacuated, we are flooded again”
In Hesdigneul-lès-Boulogne, Stéphane arrived more than a week ago to stay with his stricken mother. Last night, they had to be evacuated again.
“We clean, we are evacuated, we are flooded again. Last night, we were evacuated again, the house must still be dirty with mud,” he testifies on BFMTV this morning.
“The level has not dropped and I cannot pass by vehicle,” adds Stéphane.
The Liane is receding near Wirwignes, the water is starting to fall in Isques
The Liane has begun to decline near Wirwignes. The river is at 1m26 this morning around 6 a.m., compared to 4m91 yesterday around 4 p.m., according to data from Vigicrues.
On the Isques side, the water is just starting to drop with 4m80 at 4:30 a.m., compared to 4m94 at the start of the night.
Emmanuel Macron announced an emergency fund of 50 million euros
Traveling in Pas-de-Calais yesterday with Brigitte Macron, the Head of State announced the creation of an emergency compensation fund of 50 million euros.
“We are going to set up a specific fund which will complement what the agricultural disaster system has put in place,” he added.
Emmanuel Macron also announced “the classification of all the municipalities which requested it as a natural disaster”.
The summary of its announcements can be found here.
Schools are gradually reopening today
The Pas-de-Calais prefecture announced yesterday the gradual reopening of schools in the department from today. A decision taken due to the drop in precipitation.
It will not apply to all establishments. “Certain school circuits” are still affected by rising water levels and establishments remain inaccessible at this stage.
More information here.
Floods continue in Pas-de-Calais, now on orange alert
Hello everyone and welcome to this live dedicated to the floods which have been plaguing Pas-de-Calais for over a week now.
Météo France lowered the flood alert from red to orange this Wednesday at 6 a.m. The decline has started in recent hours for several rivers.
Find our flood monitoring In our live yesterday.