A La Réole (Gironde), this Wednesday February 3, 2021, in the early evening, the level of Garonne is brutally mounted. The mayor, Bruno Marty, says he is “very worried”.
Garonne reached 9.50 meters while the peak was expected at 9.30 meters.
In the district of Rouergue, the inhabitants and the services of the city are mobilizing. The Republican is on site. Follow our live.
12:25 am: it’s the end of our live. Thank you for having followed us.
12:18 am: the sub-prefect of the district of Langon, Eric Suzanne, is at La Réole. With the mayor, Bruno Marty, they take stock of the evacuees. There are 27 of them. According to the sub-prefect, the flood peak is expected between 3 am and 5 am.
–Eric Suzanne, sub-prefect of the district of Langon (Gironde), in full discussion with Bruno Marty, the mayor of La Réole, on the night of February 3 to 4, 2021.
00:40: already flooded by the Dropt in Gironde-sur-Dropt, the departmental road 1.113 is also covered with water between La Réole and Mongauzy. The flood is in progress. Signage is being installed.
00:10: according to the last reading, the level of the Garonne is now at 9.64 meters at La Réole. As an indication, according to Vigicrues, during the flood of March 12, 2006, the Garonne had reached 7.85 meters.
00h: There are still two people to evacuate. But these inhabitants do not seem to want to leave. “We are trying to convince them because in two hours they will perhaps call us back in an emergency situation,” we confided in the Republican. In total, around thirty firefighters are mobilized to La Réole. They come from Médoc, Carcans, La Brède …
11:45 p.m .: 11 families from the Ilet district were evacuated. Firefighters would rather evacuate now than come back when there is even more current. A family will stay in the boarding school Jean-Renou high school from La Réole while the others will spend the night with their relatives.
11:20 p.m .: Laurence Arbouin, resident of La Réole, says: “Since 2016, we have never had such a high water level. My grandmother remembers the floods in this neighborhood. I have never known that. We were very scared because it was going up on both sides of the house. There with the pumps, it is reassuring. We’re going to sleep there. “
11:10 p.m .: In Rouergue, the firefighters and services want to prevent water from reaching houses on the other side of the road. So they suck up the water.
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