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Floods in Pas-de-Calais: after the flood, the race against the cold
Floods in Pas-de-Calais: after the flood, the race against the cold – (franceinfo)
After the floods, Pas-de-Calais still has its feet in the water. The decline has begun, but sixteen schools in the department will remain closed for the start of the school year on January 8. From the evening of Sunday January 7, temperatures will be negative. Residents fear the arrival of cold and frost.
Fight the cold by all means. In Blendecques (Pas-de-Calais), faced with falling temperatures day after day, a resident and his family continuously feed their fireplace, the last source of heat in the house. “We loaded it up, we’ll have to come back this afternoon. Each time, we do fifteen kilometers round trip“explains Vincent. On the ground floor, the flood destroyed everything Placoplatre and insulation. The walls, now soaked with water, may not withstand the frost in the coming days.
Negative temperatures from January 8
In all affected areas of the city, a race against the cold has just started. A heating engineer chain construction sites among disaster victims, to repair boilers among others, and “bring back a little smile” to the residents, he said. In Pas-de-Calais, temperatures should drop below zero degrees from the evening ofSunday January 8.
