Bad weather in the Basque Country: orange vigilance for floods, flooded roads – France Bleu

The department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques is on orange vigilance for rain-flooding, but also for floods on the Nive, the Nivelle, and the Saison. The risk of flooding is to be expected, with a peak expected overnight from Thursday to Friday, warning the prefecture.

Update on disruptions

At 10 p.m. the city of Ciboure is placed in red vigilance floods indicates the town hall on its Facebook page. Several axes are cut: rue de la Fontaine, place Camille Jullian, rue Ramiro Arrue, avenue Mitterrand, avenue Delaunay, rue Bourousse, rue Arnaud Massy, ​​place Sharp, route d’Ascain and avenue De Gaulle.

At 20 hours, the prefecture indicates that the departmental 4 between Sarre and Ascain the D305 and the D306 in Sarre are cut. Just like the D655 between Bidart and Ahetze are closed to traffic.

A total of 65 gendarmes are deployed, 82 firefighters engaged with 32 vehicles, as well as 2 pre-positioned nautical rescue teams.

At 18 hours, SNCF traffic was interrupted between Cambo-les-Bains and Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port because of a landslide in the Itxassou sector. Substitution buses are in place. Delays and disruptions to be expected also on the Morcenx – Hendaye, Bayonne – Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port lines said the SNCF because of bad weather.

In Espelette, residents have their feet in the water in the church district. This concerns four houses according to the mayor of the municipality.

17 hours, the deviation (RD918) from Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle is blocked because it is flooded. The water has entered some shops in the town center.

The mayor of Ascain indicates that there are cut roads, and that he triggered the Pamela plan, to notify the inhabitants concerned by telephone. The Amezpetu stream between Souraïde and Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle has risen from its bed. Some residents are isolated.

The Ainhoa ​​diversion (RD305) is also flooded, but not cut, caution in the area. Sensitive points also in the sectors of Espelette, Urrugne, Louhossoa.

Closures in Hendaye

In addition, the city of Hendaye is activating its Communal Safeguard Plan. Concretely, Chingudy Bay is closed to traffic between rue des Tulipiers and rue des Rosiers. Diversions have been put in place, in particular by boulevard Leclerc. Parks and gardens (Olasso, Irandatz and Lissardy) are closed to the public. One-off closures are foreseeable in the coming night between Hendaye and Urrugne.

The Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefecture also activated at 3 p.m. its Departmental Operational Center, which allows an alert in anticipation of rising sea levels “expected between late night and early morning.”