The department of Pyrenees-Atlantique in the Basque Country was downgraded by the weather service Meteo France however from the maximum level red alert to orange. In Espeins in the Lot-et-Garonne region, a man in his seventies was swept away by rising waters when he went out to fetch his mail. Rescuers resumed searches on Saturday as floods inundated parts of the region with waters rising to up to nearly nine feet and by 30 centimetres per hour in some areas. A firefighter holds a teddy bear as he inspect a flooded neighbourhood following heavy rains in Peyrehorade, southwestern France. French electrcity distributor Enedis said 50,000 houses in southwestern France and 10,000 in the north, primarily in Normandy, were without power.

Source: The Local December 14, 2019 14:37 UTC