France Gets Hit With Heavy Flooding

France is braced for yet more heavy rains and flooding as swathes of the north and parts of the south west remain on alert.

A total of 22 departments are on orange alert -- the second highest warning -- for heavy rains and flooding by France's national weather agency Meteo France. 

 

The departments on alert are: Aisne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir , Ille-et-Vilaine, Landes, Mayenne, Oise, Orne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Sarthe, Paris and the area immediately outside the city known as the "Petite Couronne", Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne and Val-d'Oise. 

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180612/more-heavy-rain-and-flooding-parts-of-northern-and-south-west-france-on-alert