Newscasts - Severe floods in France trap people and turn roads to rivers

Intersport Polska SA

18/10/2024 13:44

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Source: 'Reuters - General news videos'

Description: Massive floods caused serious damage and power outages on Friday
(October 18) in parts of France's mountainous southeast region after days of
heavy rain, though there were no immediate reports of any casualties.
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Video Transcript:

I was at work. I work at Intersport. I was at work, and the water rose all of
a sudden in the parking lot. We tried to evacuate quickly. I tried to leave.
Unfortunately, my car won't work, there was too much water, so I went quickly
to shelter myself in a store behind. It was 10:30 or 11:00AM, and the
firefighters came to evacuate us around 7:00PM. We spent the day there, there
were around 15 of us.

What shocks me is seeing the force of the water. It shakes up the vehicles,
and the water went into the store, and when it came out, it tore down the
glass windows. I mean, it's astonishing. I think the people who were on site
would have been really scared