Residents pass time in emergency shelter after south of France floods force them from homes Images of a gymnasium being used as a shelter for people displaced by flooding in the wake of Storm Gloria. In the south of France, hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after heavy rains caused two rivers to burst their banks on Wednesday. Meteorologists said the rains would continue throughout Thursday, varying in intensity, in France's southernmost Mediterranean departments of the Pyrenees-Orientales and Aude. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES