Charente-Maritime is now on orange alert for floods, after Pas-de-Calais and Gironde. The town of Saintes, on the banks of the Charente, finds itself flooded for the third time in a few months.
In Saintes, the Charente river bursts its banks again. Impossible to circulate in the streets without beams. This scenario is repeating itself just three months after the last flood which affected thousands of homes. It is “amazing“, testifies a resident Monday March 4, who admits to having “Fed up“He is going to hear from a neighbor who had fifty centimeters of water in her house at the beginning of December.
“If it goes up, I’ll ask my friends“, confides another resident, whose house still has around a hundred concrete blocks stored on the furniture that was flooded last December. The mayor of the town is considering solutions for future floods.
The flood is expected to peak on Friday, when the water level is expected to rise to 5.85 meters. Up to 200 homes could be flooded.