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Videos on social media showed streets filled with knee-high water and residents buried in landslides. Helicopters helped in the rescue of around 30 people from a motorway between Langlade and Gallargues le Montueux. At least 95 dead and some 1,300 missing as flooding rages across Europe. Local authorities laid beams on cinder blocks so residents could walk from flooded houses to dry land. In the Rhone department 40% of the population have a flood risk, whilst it is 18% in neighbouring Haute-Alpes. Published 16th Jul 2021, 11:54 BST. France - Record Rainfall Floods Streets in Lot-Et-Garonne Flooding in Germany: Buildings collapse, dozens dead and many missing Today. All the councils in those areas affected by the recent floods have in place a risk prevention plan, but such plans can do little about development that has taken place before it was created, so that those properties in the most exposed areas continue to be at risk. You will also find information on the top 5 floods for each state, learn which National Weather Service offices forecast for the area and more! The scenes of devastation in Stolberg were replicated across swaths of western Germany and Belgium this week as floods devastated low-lying towns in the region. Interactive map of flood conditions across the United States Mto Express, a French website that covers weather in the region, uploaded a video of the flooded street on Twitter, adding that the water level was currently at 6.5 feet. The Loire, the longest river in France, was formerly navigated upstream as far as La Noirie, level with Saint-tienne, 880km from the sea, but its extreme flow regime makes it the least navigable of all France's major rivers. Once again, however, there are different levels of risk in these areas, from low to high, which are elaborated in the local risk prevention . The torrential downpour . Fire brigade chief Pascal Leprince said his services had evacuated about 400 people in Saintes and he estimated that up to 800 people had left their houses on their own. Southern France lashed by heavy rain, thunder and flooding