Five people hospitalized after flooding in Haute-Marne

From 7pm on Saturday, this north-eastern territory was confronted with “an intense storm episode”, the prefecture declared. The emergency services carried out 80 interventions and “five people were hospitalised mainly for hypothermia”.

A “intense storm episode” has resulted in“important” floods in Haute-Marne where five people were hospitalized, reported the prefecture of this department on Sunday July 21. “The Bologne, Marault, Annéville-la-Prairie and Meures area was particularly affected since ten times more rain fell in one hour than during a normal episode,” she specified in a situation update, around 1 a.m.

The emergency services carried out 80 interventions and “five people were hospitalized mainly for hypothermia”adds the same source. Around 1am, six departmental roads were cut off, around sixty homes without electricity and “34 people [avaient] were evacuated to the Sexfontaines village hall.

In Bologna, Meures and Sexfontaines, “more than 50 mm of water [sont] fell in one hour and nearly 100 mm in six hours“, confirmed Météo-France.

“The damage is considerable” in several municipalities “due to water and mud flows” after these “terrible storms” The disasters occurred around 7 p.m., the Departmental Council noted on Saturday evening in a Facebook post, accompanied by a video showing the flooded street of a town and piles of debris at the level of three vehicles before nightfall.

The Haute-Marne Departmental Council reported a second stormy episode that occurred around 11 p.m. in the Bologne area where “The damage is significant with more than a meter of water in the streets and then in the houses in a few minutes”.

The Montbard area, in the Côte-d’Or department, as well as the Pays d’Othe, between Yonne and Aube, have also been affected by flooding, reports Météo-France, which lifted all the orange “storm” warnings in force from the northeast to the center-east on Sunday morning, as well as those for “rain-flooding” which concerned Puy-de-Dôme and Cantal.