While the Gard is hit by a violent weather episode composed in particular of torrential rains, the prefect indicated that the chances of finding alive the 64-year-old woman who disappeared on Saturday are very low.
A dog team as well as several teams of gendarmes surveyed the banks of the Hérault on Sunday taking advantage of the lull of bad weather.
The chances of finding alive a 64-year-old woman who disappeared during torrential rains in the Gard on Saturday are very low, the prefect of Gard Didier Lauga told AFP on Sunday, but the search is continuing.
"The human toll remains the same, we still have this missing person that we still have not found, the more time passes the more we are pessimistic about his survival. It would take a miracle to find her alive now" , did he declare.
Several teams of gendarmes roam the banks of the Hérault
A 64-year-old nurse disappeared while she was in her car near Pont-de-l'Hérault, a town in the Gard, when torrential rains had suddenly swelled the rivers including the Hérault .
A dog team as well as several teams of gendarmes surveyed the banks of the Hérault on Sunday taking advantage of the lull of bad weather in this mountainous area which is no longer in red or orange vigilance.
"We are in a situation of return to normal. The issue of flooding is now behind us," said the prefect, who however spoke of material damage, especially in the town of Valleraugue.
Due to bad weather, the water distribution network was affected and drinking water is being transported by 4x4 vehicles to Valleraugue and Saint-André de Majencoules, civil security and the prefecture said.
In Anduze, a town of 3,400 inhabitants in the same area, the Gardon has fallen sharply and returned to its normal course and the inhabitants of neighborhoods affected by the rains and the flood were finishing cleaning up the mud left by the waves, according to journalists from AFP.