[Leica] Le Midi PAW 07

[Douglas Barry]

Even though I like swimming, I think I prefer the summer :-)

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Le Midi PAW 07


> We are well above it in the old part of the village, several tens of 
> metres higher :-) As I said, this is the second time that Bize-Minervois 
> has been flooded this year
> http://www.lindependant.fr/2017/01/28/a-bize-minervois-quarante-habitations-ont-pris-l-eau-dans-la-nuit,2288527.php
>
> We stayed in Bize for a few months when we first arrived so know it quite 
> well, this is what the river looks like in summer...
> http://johnmcmaster.com/Bize/content/L3005555_large.html
>
> john
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> That's pretty serious flooding, John. I hope you're above the 7 metres 
> mark!!
>
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 10:27 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Le Midi PAW 07
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>
>> Didn't take a photo all week, realised that today so some of the kitchen
>> while the kettle boiled ;-)
>>
>> http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2017/07/
>>
>> The first image shows how the water level in the local river changed on
>> Tuesday, its level rose by over 5m in 12 hours! When I say that the river
>> banks are +25m apart you get an idea of how much water.... Our area had
>> its second inondation (heavy rain/flooding) of 2017, l'Orbieu starts in
>> the foothills of the Pyrenees and has many tributaries. No flooding in 
>> our
>> village but several others were badly flooded by la Cesse and l'Aude.
>> https://www.facebook.com/FR3LanguedocRoussillon/photos/a.1377236368984841.1073741845.201675693207587/1377300318978446/?type=3
>>
>> C & C (on my images) welcome
>>
>> john
>>
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