> seems my friends are safe . a look at south eastern France , around > the town of Draguignan. they'd never seen anything like it : the > equivalent of 3 months rain in 24 hours. strong winds gathered all the > storms in a narrow corridor over the region. In 10 minutes, the water > went up two meters in Draguignan, four meters in other places and small > rivulets turned to raging rivers ...... some people saw a wave rushing > down mainstreet . > the video starts with main street Figanière after and then during the > flood . Impressive ! > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJoYNJmpBbs&feature=channel > > makes you feel very humble and insect-like when confronted to the power > of nature . > dominique
On the news here they interviewed someone who said it's happened twice before recently. But I've been keeping an eye on Meteo France for the Cevennes (a long way from the storms and flooding), and I see that in Var this seems to have been the worst since 1827. More expected tonight. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
