Severe Flooding Hits Southeastern France, Prompting Emergency Response and Widespread Damage
France’s national weather authority, Météo France, had placed six departments south of Lyon under a red flood alert on Thursday, a level indicating immediate danger. However, this alert was downgraded to ‘orange’ on Friday, suggesting that water levels would begin to recede
over €3 million was distributed to 50 municipalities that were not affected by floods in 2021
Over 3 million euros worth of compensation for the floods that burdened Belgium in July 2021 was distributed to fifty municipalities that were not affected by floods.