Torrential Rains on the Gard

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In the middle of the night, awakened by the sound of thunderstorms and the light of lightning, the inhabitants shoot the flood, then the centimetres of water that gradually fill the streets of Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Gard). It fell there the equivalent of a month of precipitation in just a few hours. Streets turned into rivers and shops were flooded. Another consequence of this phenomenon as sudden as it was violent: a school closed on the day of the …