THUNDERSTORMS – He drives on a road covered in water by the rain and exclaims: “we expected water but not so much, it is starting to be hard, everything is flooded”. Like many inhabitants of Essonne, this Tuesday, August 11, this Internet user found himself in the middle of violent storms that affected the department.
As you can see in the video at the top of the article, it is more precisely the north and west of the Ile-de-France region that experienced sudden bad weather, according to firefighters.
The amount of water falling into the streets even led the city of Longjumeau to close its city hall and the main streets of the city center.
Some people have even seen hail fall in their garden, a surprising sight in mid-August.
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