They join Indre-et-Loire in the list of departments on red alert. This Monday, the departments of Côte-d’Or and Yonne were placed on red alert for floods and floods by Météo-France. Intense rainfall is forecast for Burgundy-Franche-Comté, raising fears of rivers overflowing, particularly the Armançon, which has a very high level. Ten other departments are still placed on orange vigilance.
On Sunday, sixteen customers from a municipal campsite in Côte-d’Or were evacuated overnight. In Arnay-sous-Vitteaux, an animal park had to close its doors and was mobilizing to “safeguard” its approximately 500 animals.
Chinon breathes a little
The waves of the Vienne remain tumultuous but the flow weakens. On red flood alert, Chinon saw part of its population leave the town on Sunday, due to rising water levels in this charming medieval town of Indre-et-Loire. This Monday, April 1, the decline of the river seems to be confirmed. “The decline is clear, the Vienne is in decline,” declared the prefect of Indre-et-Loire, Patrice Latron, considering the episode “exceptional”.
The battle is by no means won as further heavy rains are forecast in the days to come. The river had dropped about four centimeters in four hours. Across the Indre-et-Loire department, 562 people have been evacuated since midday on Saturday.
A kayaker still missing
In Haute-Vienne, the search resumed to find a kayaker, after an alert given on Saturday around 4 p.m. by several witnesses who had seen the man “in difficulty” from the town of Aixe-sur-Vienne, 10 kilometers away. west of Limoges.
The prefecture, however, reports the absence of “a report of a missing relative”.