Weak sea walls blamed for France storm disaster
Posted By admin on March 2, 2010
The fault lies in the small coastal defenses and put the elderly, after
violent storms killed at least 50 dead and thousands homeless along the
Atlantic coast of France.
Many of them are after a wall of the sea off the coastal city of The
Sting dead-sur-Mer was injured, so that high-8m (26 ft) a shock wave
through the streets.
A local governor says the walls dating from the Napoleonic era and
should be replaced by high barriers.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged 3m euros (2.6 million euro) aid.
He toured the worst affected areas, coastal areas west of the Vendee
and Charente-Maritime, increase the compatibility of a national
disaster and promised that the funds for quick retrieval.
It’s a national disaster, a human drama with a balance of horrible
death, he said. The most urgent issue is to families, the members are
missing or dead to help. Storm of the Atlantic, the name Xynthia
crashed on the west coast of France, Portugal and Spain on Sunday with
torrential rains kmh by winds of up to 140 (87 mph driven).
The storm swept through North-East, Germany, Belgium and the
Netherlands. and deaths were reported in Portugal, Spain, Belgium and
Germany.
Although many had the sting-sur-Mer residents tried to be stoic about
the situation, there is some trouble in the city not doing enough to
maintain its defense against the sea, says the BBC’s Emma Jane Kirby,
in the city .
Poor planning was also responsible for the construction of a mobile
home park, near the old dam.
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from the time of (the) by Napoleon, said Philippe de Villiers, a
former presidential candidate who heads the regional government of La
Vendee.
Either we build walls (again) into the sea, in which case they will
have to be even higher … and we need to build further inland, he
told France-Info.
But the French President said it was too early to criticize the quay
wall for the high number of deaths.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the levees to prevent
flooding would be enhanced.
The priority now is to all the homeless are making to any person
threatened by the rising waters, he said.
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