Just seen this on the BBC, I hope everyone is safe.
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Alive!..( we are 550 metres above sea level)
The latest episode was not a brutal as before and the area north of Montpellier to south of Ales was a bit bad but the infrastructure there is designed to cope with innovations and all goes back to normal after a fashion.
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Iâm pleased youâre OK. We were on the edge of it at the beginning of the week, in Marseillan but it wasnât too bad. A couple of houses had flood protection across the front doors though.
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âThe deaths include two women found drowned in a cellar in the Bouches-du-RhĂŽne region.â
And itâs all over the advice sheet - I don 't go down to the cellar.
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They must be unusually inventive down thereâŠ
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So far we havenât needed that as the floods stop a few metres from our cave, but Iâve been thinking about it, for quite a while. Not least because of once nearly driving down Cockermouthâs main street at night, thinking it was free of traffic, when it was actually under eight feet of flood water.
Anyhow (drift over) the other day courtesy of the Connexionâs link to the government calculator at Le soutien financier du «fonds Barnier» | GĂ©orisques, it looks like we could reclaim about 80% of the cost of protecting our house, so will probably give it a go.
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Thatâs what weâve been offered as well. The mairie in Narbonne wrote to us and offered to send the SĂ©curitĂ© Civile to do an assessment.
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We had an official assessment a couple of years ago and subsequently received a large dossier, so I think weâve got all the necessary documentation.
However their recommendations were far more extensive than I think we need, as our village has been flooded a few times since we moved here, but our house has remained dry - itâs one of the oldest in the village and built on an outcrop of hard schist thatâs higher than the surrounding houses. I think the builders chose the best available site - high above the river and immediately below the chateau (in case the English turned up).
Anyhow, I think all we need to do is fit a flood barrier to the cave door and ensure that the electrics are well protected.
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Merci and glad you were ok on the coast but strange that Quissac got a bit wet but this time around, SommiĂšres was spared!
We have only been here for 4 years so I guess the message would be to be careful when looking for a place to live where there are road signs stating that inondations happen.
AnyhowsâŠoff to Montpellier this weekend and hopefully all will be lovely!
âŠwhen it rains, itâs like a tropical monsoon and the âpeople in chargeâ have made the requisite changes to the infrastructureâŠ
When these Episodes CĂ©venol happen, we have wonderful rivulettes running through our caves springing from the rock faces and I can see from the hand made drainage channels in the rock floor, all is as it should be I guess.
Seems to be a fairly common event in cote dâazure -
21 in 2015 (including 7 in underground car park)
18 in 2020 (VĂ©subie)
Many overall. 200 + in 30 years - article published 2019 - includes some in Perpignan.
Of course, not a patch on the tragedies in Nepal / Himalaya - thatâs x 1000
https://www.europe1.fr/societe/violentes-inondations-sur-la-cote-dazur-douze-morts-2524045
VĂ©subie -
30 years -
The idiots who came to do a security civil assessment told my son to put his fuse box up on the mezzanine as they are one level so that the electricity supply could continue if the sea rises. Silly bu**ers did not realise that the main Enedis Linky meters for the whole street are actually at street level so would go first! When he pointed this out to them they just said oh, we never realised they were in the streets now DOH!
The area mentioned does suffer the most down here with flooding hence why they are going to bring water from the RhĂŽne to us in the west as we get the drought most of the year with a big new pipeline.
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I remember the 1999 tempest coming through La Rochelle diagonally up to Lille. It killed over 100 people. Many farm animals, and It took out many thousands of trees, and our bloody roof and large barn! Oak beams from the barn were thrown nearly sixty metres against our house in the Pays de la Loire. In those days these nightmares were not given glorified, stupid names like nowadays.