“The water has come down, but the current remains strong. It looks like a river, like those that can be seen on vacation, ”testifies, on this Thursday afternoon, this employee who takes up her position every day at Briey. Except that it is not the Rhône or the Garonne, but the small river Woigot. “Small”, she was not really any more when, in the night of Wednesday to Thursday, she got out of her bed in Briey-Bas, to flood the parking lot of the lake. A place which has, unfortunately, never lived up to its name so well on this day after National Day.
Indeed, it is a huge expanse that began to form around 2:30 a.m. on July 15. “There has already been flooding here. But something like that, I had never seen!, Reports this witness of the first hour. The water suddenly rose. In forty minutes, the parking lot was flooded ”.
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Nancy’s diving firefighters came with their Zodiac
Direct consequence: as in the past, the residents of Acacias, those on the ground floor, found themselves (again) with their feet in the water! Solidarity has not been found to be adrift: the neighbors of the 1is floor collected the victims. While awaiting their evacuation by the firefighters of… Nancy, equipped to intervene in aquatic environments.
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Aux Arcades restaurant closed
But it is in the city sub-prefecture that the elements are particularly unleashed. After the evacuation by their rescuers, the “victims of the Acacias” found refuge in the large lounges of the town hall. “André Fortunat (the deputy mayor of Mancieulles who was on call, Editor’s note) and our director general of services opened the doors to them. The residents, a dozen or so, were able to find warmth and something to eat, says the mayor, François Dietsch. They were subsequently lodged with members of their families ”.
With a medical bed at home, a resident was transferred to the hospital, before finding a home in one of the city’s two nursing homes. “We are in contact with the Catholic Aid to find him clothes, because all his belongings were lost in the flood”, specifies the 1is magistrate of the Val de Briey. Which highlights a rather impressive figure: “The water has risen to 1.20 m in Les Acacias. “
If it was not evacuated, unlike previous times, the Aster hotel was also impacted. “The cellars, but also the kitchen and the cold room were affected. The hotel remains open, but we can no longer provide catering, ”deplores Dominique Spitoni, one of the managers of the premises. Consequence: the restaurant Aux Arcades will not reopen before Monday …
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