-just back from the maire where great dramas are being enacted, centered around the deep comforting voice of our mayor. The barrier isn't going to break, he declares - we do not have to evacuate the town.
But if it does, what to do? At the moment the advice is to move papers and computers (and anything else you want to protect) upstairs.
The phones there are ringing non-stop and the staff are beginning to shout at one another. They all have homes here too...
The river level has dropped and the arches of our old bridge are visible again. But the storm is back, thundering and lightening. The meteo says it'll all be over in 4 hours - so fingers crossed that everything can hang on that long.
Report from the field is grim. Everything washed away though Bieke says that Rolands dance floor is still around, just not in place. We've lost one water container and certainly the pumping infrastructure, plus the fences. All that hard work also gone:(
Lucs' garden, which is close to ours, is also trashed - and has acquired a washing machine.
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