Wet Feet

I mentioned on Monday that it had been damp.

What I didn't say is that a number of our friends had been affected by the flooding on Sunday night. Jim and Pauline (who live many metres above the river in la Guerche) ended up with water in their basement, but Dennis and Angela topped that with about 20cm of water in the house, and having to be rescued by a boat full of Pompiers. Dennis was last seen on the blog teaching me to do pierres apparentes.

This video (in French) shows the extent of the flooding, and at about 1:10 you can see Dennis and Angela being bought to dry land in the rescue boat.

We went over on Monday morning to see if we could help, but Jim and Pauline had beaten us to it, and the mopping out was already finished. To raise morale we had taken brooms, buckets, and a pile of raspberry slices.

The water has receded remarkably quickly, no doubt helped by the fact that there are now no barriers on the rivers between here and the sea.