Friday, 6 February 2009











Woow, more bad weather with an incredible storm with winds of up to 170 kmh.We woke about 4am to amazingly strong winds that were shaking the house.Ive never encountered anything like it before.We rose after all sleeping together to see trees and power lines down everywhere we looked and still didnt want to venture outside as the wind was still pumping with gusts up to 100 ks.It was cold as we'd lost power and had no heating.We had a power line down in our driveway with bare wires and was about 50 mm thick-scary stuff.I rode down to our house to see we were quite lucky to have only lost one small panel-that i'd finished the day before.It could have been worse.It rained and blew for the next 5 -6 days.I sent Co and Lola to Biarritz for a coupla days coz all we had was an open fire and candles to live with ;Rob lent us his generator which gave us enough power for a coupla liights and tv.Small luxury but much appreciated.4 people were killed locally and 1.2 million homes without power.7 days later we had power back,what an experience!!2 weeks later and there are still many people without power.They must be going crazy.Winter in France without power is hard.Everywhere we go there are trees down in huge numbers.At least firewood will be cheap next year!

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