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| In Maps: The parts of France most at risk from disastrous floods |
| 2018-10-20 |
| [The Local fr] As France reels from deadly floods in recent days, we look which parts of France are most at risk of suffering a similar disaster and the small number of towns and villages that have never experienced a natural disaster. Every year in France devastating floods destroy homes and more often that not claim lives. Only this week, flash floods killed 14 people in towns and villages around Carcassonne in southern France. Following those floods the French government declared a state of natural disaster for some 126 communes around Carcassonne. The state of natural disaster (Etat de catastrophe naturelle) is a special procedure set up in France in 1982 so the victims of exceptional natural events, such as flooding, as well as drought, can be adequately compensated for damage to property. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Ah, autumn! The first |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-10-20 21:43 |
| #2 Cold weather moving into Northeast, Midwest; Texas facing flood threat |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-20 20:36 |
| #1 Low lying areas along rivers. That's a shocker. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-10-20 07:42 |