What a wet week! Except for a few spells of welcome sunshine it has hardly stopped raining since last Friday. On a couple of evenings the storms were particularly bad with heavy rain and hail.
The River Grosne at Chazelle
Today we were on orange alert with 2 inches of rain forecast.
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We went down to the mill at Chazelle to see how high the river was and met a couple of trailers loaded with cows leaving for higher ground. The horses in the surrounding fields did not seem in any immediate danger although they didn’t look too happy.
Despite the days of rain it was not as bad as the Great Flood of October 2008 when much of the land around the Grosne at Cormatin was flooded and the Chateau was in the middle of a lake. We had been in Chazelle at the peak of the flood, watching as a team of pompiers tried to rescue some horses stranded in a small corner of a field. It was too dangerous to swim them over the submerged fencing so the pompiers simply took them some hay and watched for the water to start going down.
The pompiers take hay to the stranded horses in the floods of 2008
Drier weather is forecast from tomorrow. After a long winter and a few false starts we are hoping to see some summer at last.
