Want to walk in the rain with your lover in Paris? You are more likely to get caught in a flood

France was in the throes of the sun and heatwave only days ago. Temperatures had soared 40 degrees Celsius, there was no rain, rivers were drying up and drinking water was decreasing. And so God answered their prayers. Lo and behold, all the rain that didn't pour down in the last month. 

The French capital Paris was flooded on August 16, 2022, with nearly one month's worth of rain in just an hour, Meteo France reported.  

If you had ever dreamed of walking in the rain with your lover in the city of love, Paris…

…the reality is likely that you and your lover get poured on and have to wade through pools of dirty water. The world can thank climate change for raining down on our romantic dreams, now they are just the stuff of some old-time movies.

Netizens posted videos of torrential rains in Paris, finding it hard to fathom how the weather can go from searing hot one minute ago and raining like there's no tomorrow the next. 

In the south of Paris, water came gushing into the subway too. The videos of the scene looked like it was Titanic getting flooded. Several Paris metro stations were affected by flooding, the RATP transport organisation said. 

Someone on Twitter also thought that the flooding resembled the scenes of Titanic when the water was flowing down the stairs like a waterfall. 

Would you like to be in the city of Titanic right now? Some netizens answered, "Oui." It might be sarcasm. 

In some places, the flooding scenes were even crazier and more frightening. A passenger on a bus recorded how water kept gushing into their bus as it tried to move forward. The video was taken by a France 24 journalist who later told the news network that she was scared.

"It was scary because we saw the water pouring in and we weren't sure if we were going to make it out," Lauren Bain told France 24. 

Another netizen who posted a video of a biker riding through deep water joked that Paris is lovely in August as people can go jet skiing. 

In some places, the thunderstorm had uprooted several trees.

Storm and rains also hit Paris Disneyland. Talk about getting rained on during your Disney moment!

France 24 reported that the meteorological station on the Eiffel Tower recorded wind speeds of up to 104 km/hour. Water in River Seine also rose by 35 cm due to heavy rainfall.

But the torrential monsoon season isn't over for France. Meteo France predicts storms in southern France later this week.

The Paris fire service advised residents to stay indoors at this time, avoid any basement areas, unplug electrical appliances, venture out in a vehicle only in emergencies and avoid submerged roads and roads near streams.