France has placed swathes of Brittany in the west of the country on red weather alert as a violent storm brings flood levels not seen in decades. "There's a risk that the river will continue to rise until perhaps tomorrow," says Dominique Delamarre, mayor of flood-hit town Guichen Pont-Réan, near the city of Rennes.
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00:26All the services of the municipality are on the bridge.
00:29Schools are closed.
00:32I have two schools closed.
00:34We have put a restriction to receive children in a gym.
00:40We went yesterday afternoon to see all the inhabitants
00:43to ask them to leave the housing.
00:46For some, they stayed in the housing
00:49because you can see that we have a lot of one-story houses.
00:51They stayed in the floors.
00:53We can tell you that the forecasts are not good.
00:56We may have another rise until tomorrow.
01:01We may unfortunately exceed the historical peak.
01:06I fear that we will reach 5 meters.