Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Deadly floods on the French Riviera: new assessment, four still missing – TF1

The assessment of severe flooding that devastated parts of the Côte d’Azur Saturday rises Tuesday morning at 20 dead, with the discovery of the body of a woman of 82. But it is always provisional.

On Monday evening, the prefecture also indicated that two Germans were missing “in the area of ​​ Antibes “. Tuesday, those same authorities announced that two other people were still missing in the Cannes area. The death toll and missing remains provisional and will remain as the delicate rescue and clearing have not been brought to an end.

But these floods are already among the most deadly in recent years, with 20 dead, including a Briton, an Italian and a Portuguese. On site, volunteers and residents will continue on Tuesday to work together to erase the scars of violent storm and mudslides that ravaged this region. A Biot, where three residents of a retirement home drowned, dozens of volunteers were armed Monday brooms, squeegees, buckets and shovels to help the victims.

• Approximately 1800 homes without electricity

This morning the teams ERDF are trying to reduce the current to approximately 1800 households that were still without (66 in Antibes, 570 in Cannes Mandelieu 1200). The morning of this Tuesday “will be mainly devoted to the ERDF technicians strongly mobilized on the restoration of power in the affected areas, to pumping action in the still flooded neighborhood dispensing stations, and generators connections” specifies the Prefecture of Alpes-Maritimes .

• The traffic train remains disrupted

The Train traffic will remain “severely disrupted” Tuesday on the Mediterranean axis. SNCF does not provide a “significant improvement” that as of Wednesday. In fact, she says, “the second track Cannes station can be recovered Tuesday, October 6th. However, the safety facilities are not completed, trains will be wide speed limits, and density Traffic will be reduced. ”

So, Monday and Tuesday, “some of your TGV are deleted on all of their course. Others for exceptional departure or terminal stations of Toulon and Marseille,” while that “you have to start Intercités or exceptional terminus Marseille,” said SNCF. On Monday, a few TER circulated, but the Paris-Nice TGV terminus had to Toulon.

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• The cost of the damage assessed” by the middle or end of the week “

On the financial side, the victims began to make their accounts. The day before, François Hollande announced that the state of natural disaster was declared on Wednesday in Council Ministers, a key point for the payment of compensation. “I think it is premature to give figures, we do not know all the businesses that were impacted. We try to have as soon as possible a complete state, objective, verified, “said the prefect Adolphe Colrat, which received in the day the President of the National Federation of Bernard Spitz insurance.

It will be possible to make a “relevant” cost of damage assessment “to the middle or end of the week,” said the latter. “I will not wait on Wednesday to gather up all Beauvau competent services, insurance also (…) so we look at the conditions in which we can speed things up, “promised the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, ensuring” that the state funds “would be” mobilized as soon as possible “ VIDEO Bad weather

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