Roads and tourist attractions close as Paris braces for flooding

Paris authorities have closed several tunnels, parks, and the bottom floor of the Louvre Museum as the Seine River swells and the city braces for floods.

Roads and tourist attractions close as Paris braces for flooding

Paris authorities have closed several tunnels, parks, and the bottom floor of the Louvre Museum as the Seine River swells and the city braces for floods.

Exceptionally heavy rains have forced evacuations from homes elsewhere on the Seine after it and other French rivers burst their banks.

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