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Added on the 14/12/2019 13:04:10 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Streets in La Roche-Posay, western France, are flooded following heavy rain and the overflowing of the local river Creuse. The river reached 6m78 in the city, exceeding the historic flood of 1982, and is expected to rise to 7m2, close to the record of 1896 (7m3). IMAGES
Residents walk through flooded streets in Bourthes, a town in northern France, as the Pas-de-Calais region is on high alert after the coastal river Aa burst its banks. IMAGES
Residents walk through partly flooded streets in Neuville-sous-Montreuil, a town in northern France, as floodwaters begin to recede following two weeks of devastating bad weather in the area. IMAGES
Homes and streets are flooded in Lawrence, a town in Australia's New South Wales on Wednesday. Floodwaters crashed into more towns on Australia's east coast as a deadly storm front barrelled south on Wednesday towards Sydney, where the main dam began to spill water. The death toll rose to 12 in a week-long disaster that has washed cars from roads and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as waters lapped at balconies and roofs. IMAGES
Thirty-seven French departments are on orange alert, after a weekend of fresh storms. In Dordogne, a number of villages are flooded with torrential downpour turning a local church into a paddling pool. IMAGES