Residents of Marseille woke up to see vehicles trapped and roads submerged.
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00:00Caught off guard by the intensity of storms overnight, Marseille motorists found themselves
00:07trapped in floodwaters.
00:09The city's mayor urged residents to be careful as Marseille's old port and several neighborhoods
00:15were inundated by torrential rains.
00:28Roads were flooded and some cars were submerged in the floods following significant rainfall.
00:36Footage shared to social media showed the scale of the extreme weather, with the equivalent
00:41of a normal month's worth of precipitation falling in less than two hours.
00:48Local media report that up to 30 schools in the city were closed due to the storms.
00:54There were also disruptions to the city's bus, tram and metro network due to the weather.