I think it will go mostly unnoticed but the point is that it doesn't. They actually want to involve the population, especially businesses, again, to minimize the impact it would have on the economy, so they say they want the population informed and prepared.

After all, no one was prepared for the 2003 heat wave, because it had never happened before. A major flood paralyzing parts of Paris has happened every century and is bound to happen again so the authorities want to be responsible about it and inform the population.

If you click on the first link I gave in my original post, you can see they have done similar drills in other European cities/countries in the last few years: London in 2011, Denmark and Austria in 2013 and Croatia in 2015. It is part of a large EU program of coordinated civil rescue. In London, they said: "We must be willing to tell the public everything. A lack of transparency or precision will expose the public to risks".

So it is the same, it is something that they want advertised and shared, to raise awareness.

PHEW! i will miss it by one day!

Thank you everyone for all your reassurances!

With appreciation,

Cliu ; )

For some reason I didn't see the color-coded key for the map. When I saw shading almost to the Luxembourg Gardens I couldn't believe it, but I now understand how flooding in the lower areas could affect the electrical systems elsewhere.

I wonder what assumptions were made for this type of flooding. For example, is this based on areas that were seriously flooded previously?

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