Floods cause damage, power outages in France after heavy rain

MassiveMassive floods caused serious damage and power outages on Friday in parts of France's mountainous southeast region after days of heavy rain, though there were no immediate reports of any casualties, reports Yahoo! News.

France's weather authority Météo France placed six departments south of the city of Lyon on a red flood alert on Thursday. The alert was downgraded to 'orange' on Friday, indicating that water levels would come down again.

"At certain places in the Ardeche region, up to 700 milimetres of water has fallen in 48 hours. That's more than a year's rainfall in Paris, so it's absolutely gigantic," Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the environment minister, told BFM TV.

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