Gérald Darmanin announced, Sunday March 10, that only the vehicles of the seven people disappeared during the bad weather in the South-East. The search continued early Sunday afternoon to find their occupants. Seven people are in fact missing in Gard and Ardèche. A family of four, including two children aged 4 and 13, was notably caught in the waves on the Gardon in Dions, a village of 500 inhabitants north of Nîmes, Frédéric Loiseau, secretary, reported during a press briefing. general of the Gard prefecture. The father and the two children are still wanted. The mother was able to be found by rescuers and was transported to hospital, he said. Follow our live stream.
Ten departments on orange vigilance. The orange “flood” vigilance is still in force on Sunday in the departments of Ardèche, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Yonne and Var, reports Météo-France. The Alpes-Maritimes are on avalanche alert until 5 p.m. In the South-West, the Landes and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques are on orange alert for wave-submersion.
Around 17,000 homes are without electricity Sunday morning in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, announces Enedis. Since the night from Saturday to Sunday, 4,000 homes have been without power in Drôme and as many in Ardèche, Enedis maintaining this report at 10:30 a.m. The manager also lists 1,000 homes without electricity in the Rhône and 800 in the Loire department. The Haute-Loire prefecture adds that 1,950 homes are without electricity.
Rainfall accumulations are locally very significantunderlined Météo-France in its 6 hour vigilance bulletin. “In the Cévennes we are already between 100 and 150 mm over the last 24 hours. In Ardèche, 224 mm were measured at La Souche (330 mm over 48 hours). 100 mm are reached in the Gard plains”we can read. “In the Var, the accumulations are between 60 and 80mm, 150 mm are recorded in Méounes-lès-Montrieux”noted Météo-France again.