Victims of the A1O higtway talk with members of the French Red Cross as they wait at the Palais des Sports of Orleans on June 1, 2016 after torrential downpours brought cars to a standstill. The Loiret department is under red flood alert and France's weather agency Meteo France maintained today 18 departments under the orange alert. / AFP PHOTO / GUILLAUME SOUVANTGUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images