Evacuated residents of flooded French town worried for future Residents of Nemours, a small town south of Paris, were evacuated after the Loing river burst its banks and submerged the high street. Rescuers had to use dinghies to reach stranded residents in streets turned into rivers. "In 60 years of living here I have never seen this," Sylvette Gounaud, a shopworker in the town said. "The centre of town is totally under water, all the shops are destroyed." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of evacuees in a gymnasium