Marseille motorists trapped in floodwaters as storms inundate city

Residents of Marseille woke up to see vehicles trapped and roads submerged.

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00:00Caught off guard by the intensity of storms overnight, Marseille motorists found themselves

00:07trapped in floodwaters.

00:09The city's mayor urged residents to be careful as Marseille's old port and several neighborhoods

00:15were inundated by torrential rains.

00:28Roads were flooded and some cars were submerged in the floods following significant rainfall.

00:36Footage shared to social media showed the scale of the extreme weather, with the equivalent

00:41of a normal month's worth of precipitation falling in less than two hours.

00:48Local media report that up to 30 schools in the city were closed due to the storms.

00:54There were also disruptions to the city's bus, tram and metro network due to the weather.