“We don’t know yet the evolution of the level of the Seine River in Paris.”By mid-Friday, the river had risen six metres. PARIS — The swollen Seine River kept rising Friday, spilling into Paris streets and forcing one landmark after another to shut on Friday. Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum, and the Grand Palais, Paris’s striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition centre. The Seine, which officials said was at its highest level in nearly 35 years, was expected to peak sometime later in the day. Traffic in the French capital was snarled as flooding choked roads and several Paris railway stations were shut.

Source: National Post June 03, 2016 15:45 UTC