Paris floods: Eau no! French capital on alert as Seine bursts banks

[brooklynite]

Source: The Standard

Paris is on alert for flooding after the Seine burst its banks and tourist sites and stations along the river were evacuated.

Non-stop rain in the French capital has led the Seine and Marne rivers to rise and approach record levels, while rats are being flushed out of sewers in many parts of the city.

Videos posted online have shown giant rodents scampering through the streets and climbing into rubbish bins and one French photographer captured a group of rats scurrying around outside Notre Dame cathedral.

Seven metro stations along the river have been shut down and will remain closed until the end of the month, while the flood has also affected the Louvre Museum.

Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/paris-floods-eau-no-french-capital-on-alert-as-seine-bursts-banks-and-major-tourists-sites-are-a3749916.html

[erronis]

1. Don't forget - that's why they invented parfum (and the Orangeries)

Even back in the middle ages, sewage was not considered a pleasant odeur. Women and men ran around with hankies perfumed in various disguising scents. Reminds me of driving through northern NJ Elizabeth/Paramus in the 50s-70s.

Of course stink is a good signal that something rotten is around. Not knowing that something stinks and still swilling the polluted lemonade is something else. Reminds me of the repuglican party. (Sorry to go all tagential on this, but it's true!)

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Reminds me of driving through northern NJ Elizabeth/Paramus in the 50s-70s."

Or here in Philly driving by the refineries down in South Philly on the way to the stadiums or airport, from the early part of the 20th century all the way to current!



Always had to roll up the car windows driving by there.

[sandensea]

7. Or Baton Rouge, Louisiana

They don't call it cancer alley for nothing.

[jpak]

16. One of my childhood horrors

was driving through Elizabeth NJ at night on a family vacation.

Flaming refineries

choking stench

I remember thinking to myself "How could anyone live here"?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Wow.

[DFW]

3. I was in Paris today

I was near the Opéra, not the center or the Rive Gauche, but plenty of people were affected by the flooding, and they told me it's not supposed to get any better until then end of the weekend. I'm glad I get to spend the weekend in Germany!

[BigmanPigman]

10. Didn't they just have really bad snowstorms there last week too?

Is The Louvre going to be effected? I think a few years ago this happened and they had to sandbag the museums.

Oops, I just read the article and The Louvre is effected now.

[DFW]

11. They said something about last week, but I was in the USA last week

Now I'm over here until April, and I will be paying a lot more attention.

[BigmanPigman]

12. You should go to Nice for Carnival.

[DFW]

14. I'd rather stay right here in Dsseldorf and see the floats savaging Trump again

Check out the Düsseldorf Karneval floats of Rosenmontag, 2017, by Jacques Tilly. They were NOT timid.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I saw these from last year's celebrations from Germany and Italy.

The one with the guns and Las Vegas was an odd "image" of things to come a few months later during the mass shooting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/28/german-carnival-mocks-donald-trump-theresa-may-political-floats/ This is Dusseldorf.

[burrowowl]

5. In the early 1900's it flooded up to St. Lazare Station

[Lint Head]

6. This is terrible! I hope it recedes soon. With all the bad things going on in the world maybe

there is a simple reason for this.

[pangaia]

8. LOLOLO

Pure genius !!!

[erronis]

9. There are days like that, I swear. Sometimes too many, but sometimes sunshine.

[CTyankee]

13. Not again! I thought they learned how to control floods after that flood in the sixties just

put the art works of the city in peril. I did an essay on it and the destruction of a great work of art here at DU https://www.democraticunderground.com/10025059216

That was Florence, but I think the art world would have been on alert big time about the possibility of destruction of art from floods. I am appalled.