The Seine has passed the 6-meter mark, and is headed for 6.5 meters by later today, passing the mark of the 1982 flood. Officials have closed Metro stations, several museums and other buildings in the affected area, and may need to order evacuations.
The Environment Ministry warns that the high levels will not be a peak, but a plateau, lasting at least through the weekend. But they will still be well below the record level of the 1910 flood, which passed 8 meters.
A number of museums, including the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay, have moved artwork to higher floors or out of the building in advance of the flood; a smaller museum further upstream at Montargis, suffered flooding damage yesterday.
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