As in Gravelotte.

Heavy rains that persist in eastern France resulted in significant flooding and transport disruptions on Thursday.

In the Grand-Est region, seven out of ten departments have been placed on orange vigilance for floods, warns Météo-France.

In Burgundy-Franche-Comté, the Doubs and the Jura are also placed in orange rain-flood vigilance.

“Over the entire episode, between Wednesday evening and Thursday evening, the accumulations are significant, ranging overall between 50 and 70 mm in these departments in orange vigilance, and locally up to 80 or 90 mm, Weather- note. France.

These accumulations represent from three weeks to one month of rain ”in normal times.

The meteorological forecasting body also announces possible “mudslides in sloping areas”.

Power cuts

Authorities called for caution, citing many roads cut off to traffic and dozens of firefighters' interventions.

In Meurthe-et-Moselle, the municipalities of Briey, Longwy and Longuyon were particularly affected by the floods: up to 80 cm of water were observed in the streets, but the recession, which began at the end of the morning, “continued. continues, ”said the prefecture in a statement.

According to Enedis, up to 1,000 customers were deprived of electricity this Thursday in Lorraine, but the operator hopes to "restore everyone by the end of the day".

On the rail network, between Thionville and Luxembourg, a spokesperson for SNCF Mobilités announced "the interruption of TER and TGV trains until Sunday evening inclusive", specifying that a system of coach rotations was in place. .

In addition, river traffic on the Rhine has been interrupted since Tuesday “and probably until the beginning of next week”, from Birsfelden, in Switzerland, to Germersheim in Germany, via Kembs (Haut-Rhin) and Gambsheim (Bas-Rhin), according to the Rhineland Warning and Nautical Information Center in Gambsheim.

Faced with the increase in the river's flow, the Prefect of Bas-Rhin, Josiane Chevalier, decided to fill the Erstein polder with water, a 600 ha flood retention area near Strasbourg capable of storing 7.8 million cubic meters of water.

On the German side, the authorities are also considering filling the Strasbourg-Kehl agricultural dam, which can store 37 million cubic meters of water.

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