Storms have caused damage in several French cities. In Pontoise, water seeped into the cathedral, dripping onto works of art.
By Nathan Joubioux for Le Point
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Irain and storms hit certain regions of France this Sunday, June 11. And Toulouse was not spared by the bad weather. In the Pink City, the firefighters had to intervene a hundred times, according to information from The Dispatch. In the middle of the afternoon, the rain redoubled in intensity, flooding the metro, which had to be partially cut off.
The Minimes district, in the north of the city, was particularly affected: the police station would be partially under water, as would the Matabiau station. No casualties were reported.
The fifty firefighters mobilized were called mainly for “flooding of cellars, car parks and water infiltration in the roofs”, they explain on a daily basis. Faced with the multitude of calls, reinforcements were called in to “deal with this rainy episode, but also guarantee the continuity of current interventions”.
In Pontoise, damaged works of the cathedral
In the Paris region, it was at the beginning of the afternoon that the sky began to roar, reports France Bleu. It had been three weeks since a drop had fallen in certain places. The storms were first concentrated between Saint-Denis and Nanterre, Colombe and a large part of Val-d’Oise before affecting Paris and the inner suburbs.
After being called fifteen times in the Val-d’Oise (without any damage), it was then in the Pontoise sector that the storms increased. Several cellars and basements were flooded. But it is at the cathedral of Pontoise that the damage is the most important: the water has infiltrated and trickled on works of art. The firefighters covered them to try to preserve them.
After hitting Seine-et-Marne and Yvelines, the storms concentrated in Paris: the rain was accompanied by falling hailstones. According to The Weather Channel, up to 20 millimeters of rain fell in just ten minutes. No massive outages were reported, Enedis and RTE said.
Also in Paris, traffic in the metro was cut between Porte de Montreuil and Mairie de Montreuil. The La Défense tunnel, in Hauts-de-Seine, was also partly flooded from 9:30 p.m.
❌ traffic is interrupted between Porte de Montreuil and Mairie de Montreuil and will resume around 11:00 p.m. This is due to bad weather. #line9 #RATP
— Line 9 (@Line9_RATP) June 11, 2023