one million damage, 5 times the budget of this town

October 17 is still in memory at the vastres. The violent Cévenol episode which declared itself in Haute-Loire, did not spare the mountain village. “It was dripping everywhere, water came from the Lignon and all the streams around us. The water came out of the ground like geysers, it went up by capillarity. The roads were lifted, paths and bridges of the town were destroyed, ”explains the mayor Jean-Luc Chambon.

Thirty flooded houses and “the first time we saw that”

For him, “this is the first time we saw that”. On the deck from 10 a.m., he crisscrossed the town in 4×4 to help the population, until evening. ” It was…