Between three and four months of precipitation have fallen in a few hours since Thursday in several departments of the territory, especially in the southeast quarter. Some rivers have emerged from their beds and have caused destructive floods, as in the Gard. 

"It was really very impressive!" Christophe Boisson is visibly still in shock from the torrential rains that fell since Thursday evening in his town of Saint-André-de-Majencoules, northeast of the Gard. And for good reason, in a few hours, the equivalent of three to four months of precipitation fell on the department, bringing out of their bed several rivers, including the Tarn. No less than 16 departments have been placed in the last hours orange rain-flood, thunderstorms, or floods by Météo France.

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Drinking water networks uprooted by location

These impressive rains caused destructive floods which in particular tore off the bitumen from the roads in Saint-André-de-Majencoules. "The roads no longer existed in certain places, there were holes 2.5 meters deep. It even went so far as to uproot the drinking water and sanitation networks that were buried underneath! One person even told me that it had been 60 years since he had seen so much rain at that time ", he still reports to the microphone of Europe 1. 

No casualties 

Despite the violence of the elements, no victims are to be deplored. But the damage is numerous in the twenty or so municipalities affected. And if for the time being five secondary roads and ten bridges are still closed to traffic in the Gard, the situation is gradually improving: the 2,000 homes that were without electricity this Friday morning are now restocked. The government even hopes for a lifting of orange vigilance in the evening, but the prefecture of Lozère fears for its part a new sea level rise at night.