{"id":42080,"date":"2025-01-27T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-residents-rescued-from-flooded-homes-by-boat-as-storm-herminia-hits-normandy-and-brittany\/27\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:44:11","slug":"french-residents-rescued-from-flooded-homes-by-boat-as-storm-herminia-hits-normandy-and-brittany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-residents-rescued-from-flooded-homes-by-boat-as-storm-herminia-hits-normandy-and-brittany\/27\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"French residents rescued from flooded homes by boat as Storm Herminia hits Normandy and Brittany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RENNES, France (AP) \u2014 Residents in western <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:France;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">France<\/a> used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke their banks after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ireland-uk-storm-eowyn-cleanup-dec911dfa61e0a0c6e9fcd18ccdd72a5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:successive storms;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">successive storms<\/a> battered Normandy and Brittany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The national weather service had issued flood and wind warnings as Storm Herminia hit Spain, France on parts of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Normandy and Brittany were already waterlogged after the passage of last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-ireland-storm-eowyn-red-warning-wind-252080624539b4f67414c16cbc4f7d10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Storm \u00c9owyn;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Storm \u00c9owyn<\/a> \u2014 which left two people dead from fallen trees and more than 1 million people without electricity in Ireland and Britain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h3 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h3>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Storm Herminia caused road closures in some areas of France. About 400 people were evacuated from homes in and around the city of Rennes, at the heart of the hardest-hit region. The mayor called it the city&#8217;s worst flooding in more than 40 years, and said in a statement that the waters weren&#8217;t expected to start receding until Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 73-year-old British sailor was reported missing off the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux over the weekend, according to the regional maritime authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France&#8217;s weather service issued further flood and wind warnings for Tuesday for all regions on the western coast, from Brittany down to the Spanish border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/french-residents-rescued-flooded-homes-160938033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RENNES, France (AP) &mdash; Residents in western France used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-residents-rescued-from-flooded-homes-by-boat-as-storm-herminia-hits-normandy-and-brittany\/27\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}