In several places in France, thunderstorms caused damage to homes or businesses.

"My arms fell to me", tells the microphone of Europe 1 a resident of the Île-de-France region who was confronted with two successive torrents of mud in her house.

The city of Reims was also very affected.

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The rain and thunderstorms were moving towards Hauts-de-France, Friday at the end of the day, with three departments (Aisne, Nord and Pas-de-Calais) in orange vigilance because of the expected hailstorms in these areas, according to Météo France.

The meteorological service predicts precipitation of up to 30 to 60 millimeters in an hour in some places.

Elsewhere in France, and in particular in Île-de-France, it was already time to observe the damage from bad weather, as Europe 1 observed in Thieux, in Seine-et-Marne.

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"When is this actually going to end?"

Here, rain and lightning hit at a steady pace with three episodes of severe thunderstorms in two days.

This Friday evening, firefighters and residents had evacuated a large part of the stagnant water but brown marks remained visible on all the walls.

"The water that comes in is mixed with the mud", explains a resident at the microphone of Europe 1. She had just cleaned her house when the water started to rise again, accompanied by its torrent of mud.

"Already that I cried a lot the first time ... The second time, my arms fell out. I started crying again and I said to myself: 'When is this going to end actually ? '"

In the morning, a dumpster filled with scrap iron, soiled furniture, sofas or even a washing machine, turned in the streets of the city.

Now, residents want to prepare to avoid having to relive such a nightmare in the event of another storm.

They therefore recovered bags of salt, those that are normally used in winter, in order to erect small barricades. 

"People wanted to take bags. They took the bags, we put the pallets in the street ... It did them good to say 'I did something'", says the mayor of the city. city, Fabrice Cuypers.

"After ... will it be really effective?"

"The gutters could no longer follow"

If the sky remained threatening on Friday evening, the rain had stopped in Thieux.

In Reims too, torrential rains rinsed the town.

In the city center, some streets have turned into real torrents with vehicles stranded and basements flooded.

Traffic was blocked in some places.

"The gutters were no longer able to follow and all the water returned to the stores," laments Paul, the manager of a bakery on avenue Jean-Jaurès in this city.

"The water was really coming in from all sides, that's what was the most impressive. There, we are evacuating all the water, cleaning everything, seeing what the damage has been. ... For the moment, we do not know where we are, "he concludes.