00:00Fields and roads under water, localities cut off.
00:05It's the worst flooding in the region for decades, with the water levels rising by five metres in two successive
00:11floods.
00:13Towns in the Gironde and the south-west are inaccessible with residents having to wade through water up to their
00:19waists.
00:19They wearily observe the water's rise.
00:22Being cut off like this is really worrying. All night we haven't really known what's going on.
00:27My sister woke to sirens going off. It was distressing.
00:30All along the Gironde River, the worst may yet be to come.
00:34After several days of rising waters, there's no sign of improvement.
00:38We're particularly worried about the next few days.
00:40They announced that the waters aren't going to recede and that there are these crazy wind forecasts.
00:45All over the west of France, lands are saturated with water, the likes of which have not been seen in
00:51more than 70 years.
00:54Since 1959, since as long as the data has existed, we haven't seen this extremely elevated ground humidity across all
01:02national territory.
01:03The fact that the ground has lost its ability to drain means all the rain falling now goes into the
01:08rivers.
01:10A new depression is expected in the coming days, which could well mean another heavy storm.
01:15A new depression had reached the current system in the front of the U.S.
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