Cévennes episode: Lozère on orange alert, water is already rising in Langogne

Cévennes episode: Lozère on orange alert, water is already rising in Langogne

Le Langouyrou dans la traversée de Langogne. MIDI LIBRE – T. C.

Cévennes episode: Lozère on orange alert, water is already rising in Langogne

Les riverains du Langouyrou se préparent à la montée des eaux. MIDI LIBRE – T. C.

Cévennes episode: Lozère on orange alert, water is already rising in Langogne

L’eau monte à la filature des Calquières. MIDI LIBRE – T. C.

La pluie a commencé à tomber dans la nuit du mardi 15 au mercredi 16 octobre 2024, et devrait continuer jusqu’à jeudi soir.

The department is placed on orange alert this Wednesday, October 16, 2024. This orange alert is set for rain/flooding and storms. The alert is yellow for floods.

Météo France reports “on the Cévennes, continuous and intense rains [which] have been occurring for several hours without interruption. Over the last three hours, between 30 and 70 mm have been added in general to the relief, and up to 100-120 mm in the Lozère section, with the highest accumulations occurring along a strip stretching from Saint-Jean-du-Gard to Langogne. Since the beginning of the episode, the accumulations in the Cévennes sector often reach 100 to 150 mm, and nearly 200 mm have been recorded south of Mont Lozère."

Trains at a standstill

The Langon municipality also had to evacuate the new parking lot in the Gargantua area this Wednesday morning, October 16, due to the level of the Langouyrou. The Calquières spinning mill also has water at the edge of its ground floor. Train traffic has been interrupted between Alès and Langogne as a safety measure.

The upper Allier and upper Tarn are being monitored more particularly, as specified by the Lozère prefecture, which advises to limit travel and reminds that it is not necessary to enter a track invaded by water.

In Lozère, the episode is expected to last until the end of the day on Thursday. Over the entire episode, Météo France is predicting accumulations of 180 to 250 mm along the Cévennes axis, occasionally reaching 300 to 400 mm.

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