Storm Kirk, which hit France on Wednesday, led to the flooding of one of the buildings of the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament) and severe flooding in the Seine-et-Marne department located near Paris, BFMTV reports.
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Thus, heavy rains led to an overload of the sewer near the parliament building in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, where deputies’ reception rooms are located, leading to flooding of the basements on Wednesday evening. As the National Assembly reports on social network X, the services managed to pump out the water, but the affected premises remain closed. It is clarified that the incident did not affect the work of parliament.
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The capital itself remains at a yellow level of weather danger. As the TV channel reports, citing meteorologists, Paris faced record rainfall since 1920, the level of which amounted to 70 millimeters per day. According to the mayor’s office, the water level in the Seine has already reached 2.72 meters and will continue to rise. The bad weather affected transport in Paris and the surrounding area.
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The Seine-et-Marne department suffers the most from flooding, where a red weather alert has been introduced. According to the TV channel, dozens of families were evacuated on Thursday, and school transport was suspended. As evidenced by footage published by the media, the streets of the local commune of Coulommier have been completely flooded since the morning. As the Minister of Environmental Transformation, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who arrived on the scene, said that there were no casualties in the department due to the consequences of the floods.
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Meanwhile, according to the TV channel, on Wednesday storm waves led to the death of a yachtsman off the coast of the southern department of Hérault.
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Grid operator Enedis reported that by Wednesday evening, 67,000 homes across the country were left without electricity due to the storm. About 65 thousand households were still without electricity, BFMTV reported, citing Enedis.
