Saône-et-Loire and Yonne departments placed on red flood alert. The two departments have been placed under Météo France's maximum vigilance threshold for floods.
Along the Armançon, near Auxerre, the water rose several meters, blocking certain villages connected by the 905 departmental road, which are now impassable. “We can’t hold back the water, it’s ruined,” looks at a resident dumbfounded.