Important thunderstorms affect, since Tuesday, September 14, the south of the France. In the aftermath of the bad weather, which caused the disappearance of a person in the Gard, this department in the south of France is still among the two departments placed in orange vigilance by Meteo France.
This is also the case for Hérault, Drôme and Ardèche. These last two departments will be affected from this afternoon. Apart from the North-West and Corsica, all the other French departments are on yellow alert.
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On its website, the French meteorological agency indicates that a “New strongly stormy episode” will be set up in the morning of this Wednesday, September 15. “The lull will intervene during the next night”, still indicates Météo France.
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Rains sometimes reaching intensities between 80 and 100 mm are also expected locally in Hérault and Gard. They will be 50 to 80 mm in Ardèche and Drôme. “These thunderstorms could then spread over certain neighboring departments which in turn are likely to switch to orange vigilance. “
A missing person in the Gard
Announced as missing in the last press release from the Prefecture of Gard on Tuesday evening, a person was still wanted on Wednesday morning, after having fallen at the end of the afternoon in the Rhony river, a tributary of the Vistre, in the town of Aimargues, in the southwest of Nîmes, Gard firefighters said Wednesday morning.
The person was clinging to debris and rescuers could hear him, then contact was broken
, explained the communications officer of the Gard firefighters, Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Agrinier: Either the person escaped downstream, alone or with the help of emergency services, or it is the more dramatic hypothesis and they potentially drowned, which we do not hope.
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Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin declared that “State of natural disaster” would be declared as early as next week for the bad weather which caused significant flooding in this department.
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