The 5am news – Marseille: more than two months of rain fell in a few hours
This Monday morning, all vigilance has been lifted in the South-East and in Haute-Corse after a dantesque day in Marseille where he fell the equivalent of more than two months of rain in 24 hours. The Bouches-du-Rhône department had never been put on red “rain-flood” alert. The inhabitants of the Saint-Loup district, located in the south-east of the city, were evacuated as a precaution.
Cécile, a resident, a seen the ceiling of his living room collapsing before his eyes. Water entered through the apartment above his home. “The ceiling collapsed on my head. The water came (…) all at once. All the furniture has taken in water “, she confides at the microphone of RTL.
In Marseille, we are already worried the consequences of these bad weather on the garbage which have been piling up for a week because of the garbage collectors’ strike. Due to the precipitation, the garbage was scattered, some already spilling onto the beaches of the coast and into the sea.
Furthermore, this uncollected waste “obstructs the water evacuations, aggravate the flooding phenomenon and complicate the intervention of the emergency services “, explained Monday the Marseille mayor, Benoît Payan, in a press release. The elected representative called on the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis to” take, urgently, all measures for garbage collection “.
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