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THE past week or so has been characterised by rains and floods of exceptional severity, extending over a widespread area in western Europe, including the Rhone Valley, the Riviera, parts of Switzerland and of Great Britain. At Avignon, in the south of France, a large section of the town was inundated in places to depths of so much as six feet, and the famous Pont d'Avignon has been seriously damaged. At Nimes, the Rhone reached the record height of 26 feet, and about 125 square miles of the valley were submerged. As an unfortunate consequence of so disastrous a visitation, there has been much distress and several deaths among the inhabitants of Provence and Languedoc. One village, Aurlot, near Marseilles, has been almost destroyed, whilst in various districts, thousands of people have been rendered homeless. Damage has also been reported from Frejus and Hyeres. In Switzerland, wide areas near Geneva have been under two feet of water, and it is stated that no such floods have been recorded since so far back as 1890. The rainfall was particularly persistent and lasted without intermission for sixty hours.
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November Floods. Nature 136, 826 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136826b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136826b0