May 29, 2023 • 19 mins
What are the flood risks when purchasing a place in Paris? This is a question we’ve been asked a lot recently, so we decided to do a podcast on this very topic. First, don't worry! Paris won’t become the next Atlantis any time soon.
Listen in for advice concerning which areas are most at risk for flooding and what to do when the water rises.
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Welcome to Paris Estate of Mind! Join hosts Gail Boisclair and Marie Pistinier as we talk about the good, the bad, the ins, the outs of property rentals and purchases in and around Paris. We'll have topics for renters, owners, and visitors, share questions we are regularly asked, and more.
Have a question for the podcast? Send us an email at hello@parisundergroundradio.com.
Listen in for advice concerning which areas are most at risk for flooding and what to do when the water rises.
Check the city's website for more information: https://www.paris.fr/pages/crues-5472
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/parisundergroundradio
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You're listening to Paris The State ofMind on Paris Underground Radio. For more
great content, join us on Patreonat Patreon dot com slash Paris Underground Radio.
Welcome to Paris A State of Mind. Join us as we talk about
the good, the bad, theends, the outs of property, rentals
(00:22):
and purchases in and around Paris.We'll have topics for renters, owners and
visitors, share questions we are regularlyasked and more. My name is Gail
Barclaire of Perfectly Paris and my cohost is Marie Pistigner of lokim Paris.
Be a part of it. Bothof us are proud members of the SPLM,
(00:43):
the first representative body of furnished rentalprofessionals. Hello Marie, how are
you? Hi? Gail, howare you doing good? Thanks and hello
to all of our listeners. Helloto everyone. You know, remember that
series when I was asking people aboutliving in different areas and things like that.
(01:07):
I don't know if you remember,but a couple of different people asked
about flood zones in Paris. Yeah, that's weird because it sounds a bit
scary, right. Well, yeah, and I thought that that would be
a good idea for us to doa topic on because the people that didn't
mention it they were Americans and theysaid it's something that's very important for them
(01:27):
to know that when purchasing a propertyif it's in a flood zone area or
not, or if they should purchasesomething by the water, the sea and
so on. So let's talk aboutthat today. Yeah, sure, pleasure
and so getting into that, howdo they know, like how does somebody
find out if they're in a floodzone? Do they have to go to
(01:48):
the Mary? Is it in somereport? Or when you purchase a place
wherever in France not only in Paris, and even when you wrench, you
have what we call the gagnostics.And we already mentioned the diagnostics, but
we talked more about energetic performances,the size of the apartment and stuff like
that. But one of the gangsis about the risk. And the name
(02:09):
is a state of risk and pollutionof the soil for example. And it's
uh, oh yeah, I knowthat's scary sounding. Oh my goodness,
like state of risk and pollution.Yes, Like you know, when you
sign how do you say like inthe charge, like Okay, now I'm
going to sign up for something veryscary. Yeah, like you're built on
(02:30):
a grape side. Yeah, soit's not it's not that scary, but
it's important to have that, andit's a bit reassuring because it means that
you know the things before signing up. So the diagnostics, the name is
ARP pollution, which informs the futureoccupants of a home of natural, mining
(02:52):
and technological risks to which they areexposed. And this for example includes like
floads avalanche do you say avalanche?Avalanche? Avalanche are very pretty much the
same sunds, so much nicer foras fires or industrial accident, nuclear exposure
or seismic and mining risk of course. And now we have the radon gas
(03:15):
which is added to the diagnostics.Wow. And also of course floods are
part of this. Well. Ican just imagine now I can see all
of a sudden, everything's moving aroundthe sand. So does that mean we're
gonna like be arrest to have atsunami or something like that. No,
not exactly, feel really rushed,especially as you are living in the eighteenth
(03:36):
so you're very far from the scene. But what the technicians are fearing since
since many years is what we callthe centennial flood, which is not a
flood that can arrive like once inevery hundred years, but it's has one
chance of a hundred to occur eachyears. So it's it's a risk that
we can face in Paris, forexample. And do you remember when it
(03:59):
last, what's happened? I can'tremember, so I was not born.
It was no, no, no, no, no no. It was
in nineteen ten, and everyone hasthat in mind, and especially because there
is some picture of it and wesaw people on a like a wooden plunge
like in order to to do notbe too wet, and the sun raised
(04:21):
up to more than eight sixty twometers above the sun beds. That's insane.
Yeah, insane, Yeah, it'sit's fully insane completely. So since
then there is some reservoirs who havebeen built up to try to avoid that
and to regulate the flow, ifI can say so, But it doesn't
(04:41):
prevent us from having another episode thatcould happen one day. And it's in
Paris, but it's also in theFrance because some of the cities close by
are crossed by other rivers, soit's not only Parisian. It's really for
people close to the to the rivers. Didn't it happen again, like almost
after nineteen ten. I thought itwas like a few years ago, maybe
(05:03):
twenty sixteen or something. There islike a crazy amount of rain, and
I remember something about stuff and thelouver being taken out and stored elsewhere for
risk of getting damaged. Yeah,that's exactly. That was around that time,
and the level was pretty high becausewe had massive rent for a few
days a week, I would say, and in the fourth where I live
(05:26):
in particular, for example, andI'm not that far from the sind we
started to think about how we canprevent that, and I remember my neighbor
had some sandbags that he started toput especially because we were in the on
the ground floor and he had asouplex. So it was weread that even
if the sun is raising up likeyou have a few centimeters, then then
it would go down and it woulddamage the thing. So luckily it didn't
(05:47):
went that far. It just stayedat the level of the banks. But
it was yeah, and of courseevery time this happened, then people are
talking about the Sentiana flood. Yeah, it's true. And if the water
that comes, like you mentioned somethingabout other places being at risk, but
so it's not just water coming fromthe scene. It's not only the scent
(06:08):
who is the responsible for that.But we have several rivers around the Paris.
We have the Sin, we havethe Man, we have the wars
and the lore which start in alittle further up in cinema. Okay,
so it's just like the biggest areathough, is probably going to be I
guess the area around the Sin isat risk? Really yeah? Yeah,
(06:30):
sure, this is flood prone areasare located along the banks of the Seine.
It can be a bit extended alsobecause it depends. There is a
lot of things to take into considerationin Paris. That you have the subware
and that all the tunnels you havedone on the ground, so the can
can also like the water can gointo that so eventually to avoid to be
(06:51):
on the ground. But it's it'simportant to have that and there is some
o hown dispose as for example,the eighth of the nine who can be
at stake depends on the area itself, because it really depends. But people
and scientists are doing some simulations tosee how the flood would go and if
there is this amount of water upto where it could go, well,
(07:14):
I can't imagine that would be crazyto have water all the way up to
the eighth or the ninth or somethinglike that. But also I can see
what you're saying the logic of itgoing through as well with all the metro
stations and the water can just flowthrough all of their and affect many other
areas of the city. So Iguess it sounds like at some point it
(07:34):
is possible that it could happen againin the future. So does the city
have some sort of plan of actionto advise people how to deal with an
apparent flood and things like that.Yeah, of course it's I mean,
it's something that is no like sincea long time, so people are walking
on that. As I was saying, like, there are some scities who
(07:56):
are making some simulation to see howthings would go, and so on the
way site of the city all whichis paris that far you can have.
There is a special pages on theflood itself, and so they do give
some tips like Okay, what ifit's happened, what should I do?
So it could be for example,of course you check if your insurance PARTISI
over the risk of flooding, whichcan be very important and not only with
(08:18):
Paris, I would say, becausewe didn't talk about that, but in
France, the flooding areas can bealong the sea, along the rivers sometimes,
and it's very important because sometimes webuild up houses, we build up
buildings and everything that we're not supposedto be built at this particular place.
So it's important and it's important toverify that in your insurance you have this
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risk cover for going back to Parisin particular. Of course we don't have
I don't think we've mentioned that alot in our podcast, but we are
very lucky when we have a calfwho have a cellar somewhere where we can
store our belongings. But it's prettyrare, and often it's like very humid
because it's on the run, andespecially when you are closer to the same
(09:03):
the more humid your cave is.But of course for those who have things
in their cellar, it's it's importantto store them mailswhere or to elevate them
in order to make sure that thereis no too much damage. And of
course you have to check all theequipments that you have. You make sure
that you don't leave any valuable objectsin your basement. It's very important,
and they say, but I thinkit's a bit too much from now.
(09:24):
But you can also prepare of courseemergency kids once you heard about things such
as what an unperiachable food closes,batteries so stuff like that. So we
shouldn't be too much to give toomuch catastrophies back on that. But I
mean everything is written on the Pariscity or website, so it's it's information
that Sara accurate in some point.So yeah, ars eris dot fr the
(09:48):
city's website. That's really good advice. And I think a lot of foreigners
that come from places where they haveto deal with flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes
and things like that can definitely late. I know, before living in Paris,
I was actually living on a Caribbeanisland and we had to deal with
hurricanes all the time. And anytimethere were hurricanes coming, I basically had
(10:09):
to move everything off of the ground, put it on say my bed or
just above you know, above theground. But one time I and you
know, secure my windows and soon, but one time my roof actually
flew off. So all of thesaving protecting everything by putting it on the
bed didn't really matter when you haveno roof, right exactly, I swear
(10:33):
I had one of those mattresses thatactually had coils, you know, years
ago when they used to have coilsand mattresses made of metal. My mattress
was so saturated that when I removedeverything off of the bed there were rust
rings of where the coils were onthe mattress. Wow, my impressive.
Luckily we are far from that inParis. Yeah, I know, but
(10:56):
I mean having said that, okay, we get, of course lots of
notice because we would be watching onthe news where the path of the hurricane.
We could prepare ourselves a little bit. But obviously there's not like a
little site I don't think where wecan watch the increase of the water.
Or maybe there is a little sitewhere we can watch the increase of the
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water. So far I don't believethere is. But one of the things
which is important is that it doesn'thappen in an hour, like if there
is this kind of problem, itwill take a few days even tually a
few weeks where people are going tobe worried. Like I mean when I
say people scientists and people in meteorologistswho are going to I mean everything is
under not control, but it's checkedand screen all the time. So if
(11:41):
there is really a certain point wherethey're going to say, okay, the
flood is going to be major andthere will be more water than we can
expect and everything, we will knowthat a few days before it will not
be like from a day to another, the water doesn't come up this way,
so of course we will have fewdays to get organized, so which
is of course putting away and upstairsall the documentations or papers you need.
(12:07):
Make sure in the cellar. It'sa very important and interesting advice from the
city or like, make sure thatin the cellar you don't leave any element
that can cause a pollution, becauseof course this is where we can have
paints, can and things like that, which is definitely what we store in
basement and in cellar in Paris.But of course it's very important to remove
that in order to make sure thatwhen the water comes out then we don't
(12:28):
have a massive pollution on that.That's a good point. Yeah, yeah,
I wouldn't you know, preparing thetopic we were going to talk about.
It was one of the things thatI thought, Okay, I wouldn't
have thought about that, and it'svery important. Yeah, and I think
that it's only because these particular peoplethey said it's really something to consider when
(12:48):
purchasing a property. Yeah, incertain parts of North America. So yeah,
So the thing that you will have, of course, few days to
get organized and to make sure thatthe thing is if you can leave the
city, then leave the city.And information will be on the Parisian website,
it would be on the internet.I'm sure it would be all over
the news because this kind of amajor event, we will be on the
(13:09):
headlines all the time. Going backto the question you had on the previous
podcast from the American people willing tobe in Paris and being a bit worried.
Okay, this is an important thing, like it's something that can happen
that like it's a somethennial, it'svery rare. And what is important is
that in fact you have the diagnosticswhich says, depending on which area of
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Paris, if you are in aflood zone, and for friends in a
general more generally it's important as wellbecause it would say if this is at
risk or not. And then dependingon where it is where you purchase or
where you rent, maybe you cantake some more some additional information on the
global risk. Are you too closefrom the sea, like right now we
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talk a lot about the rays ofthe ocean and of the sea because of
climate change, so of course moreand more people will need to be further
away from the sea or from therivers. But even in small village for
example my parents, which are inthe Paris suburbs, then of course you
have some river which are not asbig as the same but some of the
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housings that are close by to thosesmall rivers. When it comes and because
it's the rivers, like every littledrop come and become bigger, it can
make a lot of damages. Soit's an important topic to know when you
when you purchase a place along otherbecause we didn't mention it. But of
course in these diagnostics we have muchmore information, like there is a flood
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zone, but there is also thequarry which can happen in Paris because we
are what we call often we saywe are on a greyea like which is
I don't know if you have somuch greyer in the English speaking country,
but when you're in Korea, youknow it's a cheese with a lot of
hole in it. So This isthe way we picture Paris because with all
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the subway, the metro and thestations on the around. There is of
course after they had to dig,so of course of the buildings below there
is a lot of turners around.So and as we mentioned in when we
started, there is all the risksnatural and a raid on like gas raidon.
It could be scary on nuclear exposure. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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talking about like quarries and other thingslike that. I mean, we should
get more into these topics in futureepisode, because, for example, in
MoMath, everyone knows that they've dugso much underneath the city, and with
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the building shifting and so on andso forth, there are some buildings that
even an apartment that I manage,and then there's another apartment that a friend
manages. They're both on Rue Coulancore, and it's shifted so much. The
building that my friend manages, thedoor, the entrance to the building,
it's got metal all around it tosupport it. Because it's shifted so much.
(16:30):
You're going to scare every listener whowants to come to Paris, and
who I'm going to go. Weshouldn't go there now. But it's true,
you're right, But it's like insummer on the even though when you're
not in Paris because of dryness,like for example, okay, the housings
of the building are living their ownlife, like okay, it's shifting when
it's cold, when it's warm,when it's humid, and it's moving and
(16:52):
everything. Sometimes it's a bit scarierthan the others. By chance, it's
not all the time, yeah,but yeah, we don't usually when there
is a crack on the wall.We are not that much surprised in Paris
unless we are in a very verybrand new building. Well yeah, old
building shift. That's just a partof life, because as you say,
they do have their own movement andeven doors, like you said, because
(17:15):
so many of them are made outof wood that I know at my old
apartment, my door would expand andcontract with the weather so much so that
sometimes I couldn't even hardly double lockedmy door. Yeah, we have that
in our office. Like we arein a don't We are not in a
boutique. We are in an officewhich is on the third floor and the
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elevator during the summer, when youtake the zomb it's on its third floor,
so you can definitely go back andtake the stairs when you are on
the way back. But on theway up, I have to say that
the stalls are a bit wide andsteep, so usually I'm taking that,
but when you want to go onthe way down, it's impossible to you
open the door, but then thedoor doesn't close. It's iron, but
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it's like expanded, so the dotcannot be closed. And if it's not
closed, then the security shows insidecannot close and then you cannot do it
go down. So yeah, it'san interesting lively The buildings are alive.
Sounds like Stephen King novels do.Maybe it is. Maybe we should have
(18:21):
waited to talk about this around Halloween. Yeah, exactly, should we should
do something else? Well? Ithink that was very interesting, and certainly
I'm sure it'll be informative for alot of our listeners, but we'll definitely
have to get into more detail aboutsome of the other diagnostic things. I
think yeah, I think so well. Thanks very much for all your great
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information. Thank you, Gaylee,and what we said is again they can
look up all that information as wellon the website www dot Paris spelt like
the City dot Fcom, France ARCMwell the second letter of Francescom fringing rate
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on far. Thanks again, thankyou very much, bye for now do
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Welcome to Paris A State of Mind. Join us as we talk about
the good, the bad, theends, the outs of property, rentals
(00:22):
and purchases in and around Paris.We'll have topics for renters, owners and
visitors, share questions we are regularlyasked and more. My name is Gail
Barclaire of Perfectly Paris and my cohost is Marie Pistigner of lokim Paris.
Be a part of it. Bothof us are proud members of the SPLM,
(00:43):
the first representative body of furnished rentalprofessionals. Hello Marie, how are
you? Hi? Gail, howare you doing good? Thanks and hello
to all of our listeners. Helloto everyone. You know, remember that
series when I was asking people aboutliving in different areas and things like that.
(01:07):
I don't know if you remember,but a couple of different people asked
about flood zones in Paris. Yeah, that's weird because it sounds a bit
scary, right. Well, yeah, and I thought that that would be
a good idea for us to doa topic on because the people that didn't
mention it they were Americans and theysaid it's something that's very important for them
(01:27):
to know that when purchasing a propertyif it's in a flood zone area or
not, or if they should purchasesomething by the water, the sea and
so on. So let's talk aboutthat today. Yeah, sure, pleasure
and so getting into that, howdo they know, like how does somebody
find out if they're in a floodzone? Do they have to go to
(01:48):
the Mary? Is it in somereport? Or when you purchase a place
wherever in France not only in Paris, and even when you wrench, you
have what we call the gagnostics.And we already mentioned the diagnostics, but
we talked more about energetic performances,the size of the apartment and stuff like
that. But one of the gangsis about the risk. And the name
(02:09):
is a state of risk and pollutionof the soil for example. And it's
uh, oh yeah, I knowthat's scary sounding. Oh my goodness,
like state of risk and pollution.Yes, Like you know, when you
sign how do you say like inthe charge, like Okay, now I'm
going to sign up for something veryscary. Yeah, like you're built on
(02:30):
a grape side. Yeah, soit's not it's not that scary, but
it's important to have that, andit's a bit reassuring because it means that
you know the things before signing up. So the diagnostics, the name is
ARP pollution, which informs the futureoccupants of a home of natural, mining
(02:52):
and technological risks to which they areexposed. And this for example includes like
floads avalanche do you say avalanche?Avalanche? Avalanche are very pretty much the
same sunds, so much nicer foras fires or industrial accident, nuclear exposure
or seismic and mining risk of course. And now we have the radon gas
(03:15):
which is added to the diagnostics.Wow. And also of course floods are
part of this. Well. Ican just imagine now I can see all
of a sudden, everything's moving aroundthe sand. So does that mean we're
gonna like be arrest to have atsunami or something like that. No,
not exactly, feel really rushed,especially as you are living in the eighteenth
(03:36):
so you're very far from the scene. But what the technicians are fearing since
since many years is what we callthe centennial flood, which is not a
flood that can arrive like once inevery hundred years, but it's has one
chance of a hundred to occur eachyears. So it's it's a risk that
we can face in Paris, forexample. And do you remember when it
(03:59):
last, what's happened? I can'tremember, so I was not born.
It was no, no, no, no, no no. It was
in nineteen ten, and everyone hasthat in mind, and especially because there
is some picture of it and wesaw people on a like a wooden plunge
like in order to to do notbe too wet, and the sun raised
(04:21):
up to more than eight sixty twometers above the sun beds. That's insane.
Yeah, insane, Yeah, it'sit's fully insane completely. So since
then there is some reservoirs who havebeen built up to try to avoid that
and to regulate the flow, ifI can say so, But it doesn't
(04:41):
prevent us from having another episode thatcould happen one day. And it's in
Paris, but it's also in theFrance because some of the cities close by
are crossed by other rivers, soit's not only Parisian. It's really for
people close to the to the rivers. Didn't it happen again, like almost
after nineteen ten. I thought itwas like a few years ago, maybe
(05:03):
twenty sixteen or something. There islike a crazy amount of rain, and
I remember something about stuff and thelouver being taken out and stored elsewhere for
risk of getting damaged. Yeah,that's exactly. That was around that time,
and the level was pretty high becausewe had massive rent for a few
days a week, I would say, and in the fourth where I live
(05:26):
in particular, for example, andI'm not that far from the sind we
started to think about how we canprevent that, and I remember my neighbor
had some sandbags that he started toput especially because we were in the on
the ground floor and he had asouplex. So it was weread that even
if the sun is raising up likeyou have a few centimeters, then then
it would go down and it woulddamage the thing. So luckily it didn't
(05:47):
went that far. It just stayedat the level of the banks. But
it was yeah, and of courseevery time this happened, then people are
talking about the Sentiana flood. Yeah, it's true. And if the water
that comes, like you mentioned somethingabout other places being at risk, but
so it's not just water coming fromthe scene. It's not only the scent
(06:08):
who is the responsible for that.But we have several rivers around the Paris.
We have the Sin, we havethe Man, we have the wars
and the lore which start in alittle further up in cinema. Okay,
so it's just like the biggest areathough, is probably going to be I
guess the area around the Sin isat risk? Really yeah? Yeah,
(06:30):
sure, this is flood prone areasare located along the banks of the Seine.
It can be a bit extended alsobecause it depends. There is a
lot of things to take into considerationin Paris. That you have the subware
and that all the tunnels you havedone on the ground, so the can
can also like the water can gointo that so eventually to avoid to be
(06:51):
on the ground. But it's it'simportant to have that and there is some
o hown dispose as for example,the eighth of the nine who can be
at stake depends on the area itself, because it really depends. But people
and scientists are doing some simulations tosee how the flood would go and if
there is this amount of water upto where it could go, well,
(07:14):
I can't imagine that would be crazyto have water all the way up to
the eighth or the ninth or somethinglike that. But also I can see
what you're saying the logic of itgoing through as well with all the metro
stations and the water can just flowthrough all of their and affect many other
areas of the city. So Iguess it sounds like at some point it
(07:34):
is possible that it could happen againin the future. So does the city
have some sort of plan of actionto advise people how to deal with an
apparent flood and things like that.Yeah, of course it's I mean,
it's something that is no like sincea long time, so people are walking
on that. As I was saying, like, there are some scities who
(07:56):
are making some simulation to see howthings would go, and so on the
way site of the city all whichis paris that far you can have.
There is a special pages on theflood itself, and so they do give
some tips like Okay, what ifit's happened, what should I do?
So it could be for example,of course you check if your insurance PARTISI
over the risk of flooding, whichcan be very important and not only with
(08:18):
Paris, I would say, becausewe didn't talk about that, but in
France, the flooding areas can bealong the sea, along the rivers sometimes,
and it's very important because sometimes webuild up houses, we build up
buildings and everything that we're not supposedto be built at this particular place.
So it's important and it's important toverify that in your insurance you have this
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risk cover for going back to Parisin particular. Of course we don't have
I don't think we've mentioned that alot in our podcast, but we are
very lucky when we have a calfwho have a cellar somewhere where we can
store our belongings. But it's prettyrare, and often it's like very humid
because it's on the run, andespecially when you are closer to the same
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the more humid your cave is.But of course for those who have things
in their cellar, it's it's importantto store them mailswhere or to elevate them
in order to make sure that thereis no too much damage. And of
course you have to check all theequipments that you have. You make sure
that you don't leave any valuable objectsin your basement. It's very important,
and they say, but I thinkit's a bit too much from now.
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But you can also prepare of courseemergency kids once you heard about things such
as what an unperiachable food closes,batteries so stuff like that. So we
shouldn't be too much to give toomuch catastrophies back on that. But I
mean everything is written on the Pariscity or website, so it's it's information
that Sara accurate in some point.So yeah, ars eris dot fr the
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city's website. That's really good advice. And I think a lot of foreigners
that come from places where they haveto deal with flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes
and things like that can definitely late. I know, before living in Paris,
I was actually living on a Caribbeanisland and we had to deal with
hurricanes all the time. And anytimethere were hurricanes coming, I basically had
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to move everything off of the ground, put it on say my bed or
just above you know, above theground. But one time I and you
know, secure my windows and soon, but one time my roof actually
flew off. So all of thesaving protecting everything by putting it on the
bed didn't really matter when you haveno roof, right exactly, I swear
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I had one of those mattresses thatactually had coils, you know, years
ago when they used to have coilsand mattresses made of metal. My mattress
was so saturated that when I removedeverything off of the bed there were rust
rings of where the coils were onthe mattress. Wow, my impressive.
Luckily we are far from that inParis. Yeah, I know, but
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I mean having said that, okay, we get, of course lots of
notice because we would be watching onthe news where the path of the hurricane.
We could prepare ourselves a little bit. But obviously there's not like a
little site I don't think where wecan watch the increase of the water.
Or maybe there is a little sitewhere we can watch the increase of the
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water. So far I don't believethere is. But one of the things
which is important is that it doesn'thappen in an hour, like if there
is this kind of problem, itwill take a few days even tually a
few weeks where people are going tobe worried. Like I mean when I
say people scientists and people in meteorologistswho are going to I mean everything is
under not control, but it's checkedand screen all the time. So if
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there is really a certain point wherethey're going to say, okay, the
flood is going to be major andthere will be more water than we can
expect and everything, we will knowthat a few days before it will not
be like from a day to another, the water doesn't come up this way,
so of course we will have fewdays to get organized, so which
is of course putting away and upstairsall the documentations or papers you need.
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Make sure in the cellar. It'sa very important and interesting advice from the
city or like, make sure thatin the cellar you don't leave any element
that can cause a pollution, becauseof course this is where we can have
paints, can and things like that, which is definitely what we store in
basement and in cellar in Paris.But of course it's very important to remove
that in order to make sure thatwhen the water comes out then we don't
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have a massive pollution on that.That's a good point. Yeah, yeah,
I wouldn't you know, preparing thetopic we were going to talk about.
It was one of the things thatI thought, Okay, I wouldn't
have thought about that, and it'svery important. Yeah, and I think
that it's only because these particular peoplethey said it's really something to consider when
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purchasing a property. Yeah, incertain parts of North America. So yeah,
So the thing that you will have, of course, few days to
get organized and to make sure thatthe thing is if you can leave the
city, then leave the city.And information will be on the Parisian website,
it would be on the internet.I'm sure it would be all over
the news because this kind of amajor event, we will be on the
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headlines all the time. Going backto the question you had on the previous
podcast from the American people willing tobe in Paris and being a bit worried.
Okay, this is an important thing, like it's something that can happen
that like it's a somethennial, it'svery rare. And what is important is
that in fact you have the diagnosticswhich says, depending on which area of
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Paris, if you are in aflood zone, and for friends in a
general more generally it's important as wellbecause it would say if this is at
risk or not. And then dependingon where it is where you purchase or
where you rent, maybe you cantake some more some additional information on the
global risk. Are you too closefrom the sea, like right now we
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talk a lot about the rays ofthe ocean and of the sea because of
climate change, so of course moreand more people will need to be further
away from the sea or from therivers. But even in small village for
example my parents, which are inthe Paris suburbs, then of course you
have some river which are not asbig as the same but some of the
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housings that are close by to thosesmall rivers. When it comes and because
it's the rivers, like every littledrop come and become bigger, it can
make a lot of damages. Soit's an important topic to know when you
when you purchase a place along otherbecause we didn't mention it. But of
course in these diagnostics we have muchmore information, like there is a flood
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zone, but there is also thequarry which can happen in Paris because we
are what we call often we saywe are on a greyea like which is
I don't know if you have somuch greyer in the English speaking country,
but when you're in Korea, youknow it's a cheese with a lot of
hole in it. So This isthe way we picture Paris because with all
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the subway, the metro and thestations on the around. There is of
course after they had to dig,so of course of the buildings below there
is a lot of turners around.So and as we mentioned in when we
started, there is all the risksnatural and a raid on like gas raidon.
It could be scary on nuclear exposure. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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talking about like quarries and other thingslike that. I mean, we should
get more into these topics in futureepisode, because, for example, in
MoMath, everyone knows that they've dugso much underneath the city, and with
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the building shifting and so on andso forth, there are some buildings that
even an apartment that I manage,and then there's another apartment that a friend
manages. They're both on Rue Coulancore, and it's shifted so much. The
building that my friend manages, thedoor, the entrance to the building,
it's got metal all around it tosupport it. Because it's shifted so much.
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You're going to scare every listener whowants to come to Paris, and
who I'm going to go. Weshouldn't go there now. But it's true,
you're right, But it's like insummer on the even though when you're
not in Paris because of dryness,like for example, okay, the housings
of the building are living their ownlife, like okay, it's shifting when
it's cold, when it's warm,when it's humid, and it's moving and
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everything. Sometimes it's a bit scarierthan the others. By chance, it's
not all the time, yeah,but yeah, we don't usually when there
is a crack on the wall.We are not that much surprised in Paris
unless we are in a very verybrand new building. Well yeah, old
building shift. That's just a partof life, because as you say,
they do have their own movement andeven doors, like you said, because
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so many of them are made outof wood that I know at my old
apartment, my door would expand andcontract with the weather so much so that
sometimes I couldn't even hardly double lockedmy door. Yeah, we have that
in our office. Like we arein a don't We are not in a
boutique. We are in an officewhich is on the third floor and the
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elevator during the summer, when youtake the zomb it's on its third floor,
so you can definitely go back andtake the stairs when you are on
the way back. But on theway up, I have to say that
the stalls are a bit wide andsteep, so usually I'm taking that,
but when you want to go onthe way down, it's impossible to you
open the door, but then thedoor doesn't close. It's iron, but
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it's like expanded, so the dotcannot be closed. And if it's not
closed, then the security shows insidecannot close and then you cannot do it
go down. So yeah, it'san interesting lively The buildings are alive.
Sounds like Stephen King novels do.Maybe it is. Maybe we should have
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waited to talk about this around Halloween. Yeah, exactly, should we should
do something else? Well? Ithink that was very interesting, and certainly
I'm sure it'll be informative for alot of our listeners, but we'll definitely
have to get into more detail aboutsome of the other diagnostic things. I
think yeah, I think so well. Thanks very much for all your great
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information. Thank you, Gaylee,and what we said is again they can
look up all that information as wellon the website www dot Paris spelt like
the City dot Fcom, France ARCMwell the second letter of Francescom fringing rate
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on far. Thanks again, thankyou very much, bye for now do
soon Bye. Thanks for listening toParis A State of Mind featuring Gale of
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