Ooh, that was a once in a generation storm for where we are. 3 trees down and chimney caps (slabs) fell onto the roof creating 2 new starlight air conditioning vents in the roof.
Luckily I’ve had 7 Manouche turn up today offering to help. All with siret numbers but based 300Km from here. I tell you, they’re like the number 13 Clapham Omnibus service, or 72, whatever.
I think I’ll look at the stars for another night and wait for the ‘Expert’ to assess first.
It is easy to check out siret numbers online. I highly recommend searching their credentials before.
Thanks, leccy had just come back on when we got home from the dechetterie about 5pm, to our very great relief. I had to read books instead of forums - it was awful.
But it’s great to know we’ll have hot showers before leaving tomorrow, and everything can be turned off properly. Scary how much we rely on electricity. We heard that this was the 3rd significant power cut so far this year, although by far the longest. I’m very glad we chose to fit a wood burner in the living room, so that there will always be a heat source that’s not dependent on power - a lesson learned in the UK.
Very hot this morning here in Trivy south 71.
The pool is already like a tepid bath.
Thank goodness we have our dripper system for all our fruit trees .
Apparently our local Lot Valley destruction was not caused by strong winds, but by a tornado. which explains why so many mature trees hadn’t simply ‘snapped’, but had been twisted until they shattered in the course of a few minutes. I’d not previously understood why the debris was different to that resulting from a normal orage.
Fortunately, viewed from across the river, the forest looks largely unchanged.
Orange warning for storms here all day and until the early hours tomorrow. Were due lots of rain, which we need but maybe not all at once. Emptied almost all our stored water we use to keep various plants alive during the drought so hopefully they’ll all fill up again. At the moment, the area north and west of Perpignan is getting a pasting, about 150 strikes a minute and there’s lots south and west of us, but not a drop or peal here yet.
Narbonne was specifically mentioned on BFM TV’s weather report this morning. I’ve just had two automated calls from the mairie saying that a storm is coming and not to go out unless you really need to. We’ve had a lot of rain and some impressive thunder and lightning.
After the events of 3 weeks ago, Meteo are showing temps in the low-mid 30s and clear skies over Cussy for the next week (although Meteo make the BBC weather forecast look reliable sometimes).
Got about 1.5 hours of heavy rain and thunder and lightning. A few close enough to cut the electricity for a few seconds each. All out water collectors are now full
Edit: Just looked at PanneauPocket and it looks like part of the village has no electricity . Apparently a transformer was damaged in the storm and I didn’t even know.
We too. I posted about our 5 drops too soon. It’s been an almighty storm and I’m sure all our water butts are full again. I haven’t dared look at the state of the tonnelle roof in front of our gite. That can wait for the morning.
. Apparently a transformer was damaged in the storm and I didn’t even know.
I posted about our 5 drops too soon. It’s been an almighty storm and I’m sure all our water butts are full again.