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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

2014-09-30 Lamalou the aftermath.

 

As several of you already know , there was a disaster in Lamalou-les Bains . Already saturated by several days of rain, a thunder storm finally broke a dam and flood water cascaded down through the town….like a tsunami …….. several people lost their lives. There are many pictures online of the disaster itself…….we took these 2 weeks after…and its still terrible.

We had owned a studio in LLB until recently, and feel greatly for all the people caught up in this awful mess.

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Not a very good pic, but the river you can see is usually no more than a trickle…and this is two weeks later !

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This is a bridge DESIGNED to withstand flooding….there are “fin” shaped concrete structures flat side facing downstream, designed to allow trees to flow over the bridge….several of them broke. Note also the red reinforcing bars !

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Just some of the damage in the main river.

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