On the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 November, as storm Caetano arrived on our coasts, approximately 25 meters of a wall collapsed on the beach at Kerhostin, in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon. The storm brought down the wall along with a few square meters of the garden.
I'm going to put it back in the same place.
For the owner, it is astonishment, but there is no question of giving in to panic. “It was an accident. It can happen.” No question of considering moving back your wall either. “I’m going to put it back in the same place,” he says. On the side of its neighbor, although much less affected, the concern is more palpable.
“The tidal coefficient was only 60. My wall only collapsed one meter, I'm finally lucky, but we will have to check that the rest has not been weakened. I'll check with my insurance. I am insured against natural disasters.”
For the owners of the other adjoining houses also the collapse of this wall is an alert that they want to take into consideration. A few years ago, a staircase had already given way under the force of a storm and breaches began to be visible in the rocks which support the foundations of the walls of the houses. “It’s certainly the start of the problems,” slips a Kerhostinois. Especially since it is very complicated to involve companies, even if the wall is on the right of the property, because next to it, it is the public maritime domain.
