‘In late January 1910, following months of high rainfall, the Seine River flooded the French capital when water pushed upwards from overflowing sewers and subway tunnels and seeped into basements through fully saturated soil.’
- Wikipedia
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Thank you to Historic Cities
Love these! I was in Paris in 1999 when a huge storm on Boxing Day ended up causing the Seine to break its banks and bring the water level to the bottom of some of the bridges (in particular, your second image of the Pont Alexander III looks very similar).
I know because I lived on a small boat on the Seine at the time on the Port des Champs-Elysées. It was great because the large tourist boats couldn’t get under the bridges on the Seine. Made for an absolutely fabulous start to the year 2000.
Need to get those photos I had online. Not as dramatic as these, but still pretty impressive.
It’s a shame these photos aren’t labeled with the street or quartier names… I recognize the location of most of them, but there are a few that could be almost anywhere in the city…
As all current disasters are ‘clearly AGW-related’, it is amazing how many catastrophes occurred before AGW. And, the world would be familiar with them, if only the press gave even a little attention to history.
Here in Southern California, we’ve had a few floods recently (1998, 2005, 2010), following which the local media kept asking questions about how the rainfall and flooding related to global warming. Yet, there was one massive SoCal flood that is never mentioned when talking about AGW and catastrophic weather. Nearly three times LA’s normal rainfall occurred in a 30 day period, dwarfing any flood event that has occurred since. Since it happened in 1861, it doesn’t fit the agenda, so it gets ignored.