France - not always sunny

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I am pleased we never moved further south. We have missed the worst of last night's weather although thanks to 85kmp gusts we did not turn out until lunchtime today.

Pity the poor folk in SW France Bordeaux region 37mm of rain Hurricane force winds and a million people without electricity.

Maine et Loire
 
Thats me!!!
Polytunnel upended, hay getting wet, trees down, roads blocked, dangerous to be outside.Horses not too bothered, but glad to come in and get dry.We are two hours from Bordeaux and consider ourselves lucky, but work to do!
JC
 
Me too, JC, flooded stables, fencing down, frozen shivering gees (with rugs on, and only out for 4 hours!) blizzards at over 70kmph............
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sjm, Nantes should be fine, the red and orange alerts were just for SW France.............not sure I'd fancy underground stables down here atm, they'd all drown with the height of the water table.............
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Poor JC and Gone to France hugs to you both. Only happens once every ten years - I think last time was Millenium Eve. Poor friends spent a terrifying night on a houseboat on the Siene.

Good news. Local farmers tell us that the benefit of recent snow is that it brings down Nitrogen. They must be right because all my fields are starting to green up.
 
Was talking to my mum and sister who live out there (until their internet died). Horizontal snow apparently, they were freezing as the wind was totally wrong for the fires and neither would burn well. They bought the rabbits in in a box awww.

Not too bad now though i hear so they are off riding even though the poney club has no electric atm.
 
Winds seem to have settled now, lots of people still without electricity, we are feeding some friends tonight(haggis!!) and have lent them our generator. We are lucky, but sodden!Rivers are awesome, very brown and angry looking.There are a lot of people worse of than us.
JC
 
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