00:00South African carried the move into Western Europe on Wednesday, sweeping across Portugal,
00:04Spain and especially France. Strong winds knocked down trees in Portugal and Spain
00:09before dumping heavy rains in France that left at least one dead. The storm hit the
00:14port city of Seine in southern France and overturned three boats, killing one amateur
00:22sailor and putting another one in hospital in critical conditions.
00:30From nine o'clock onwards, I started looking at the gate to see how the water was rising,
00:37because I knew it was going to rise and rise. And it was rising very, very fast,
00:46much faster than usual. And every quarter of an hour, I moved a stone and when it arrived in my
00:51yard. As soon as it arrived in my yard, I called the firemen to evacuate me and my wife.
01:05I've just gone to pick up some things with a friend who's currently putting us up for a few
01:09days and the fire brigade took us away in a boat. We opened the house and there's 30 to 40 centimeters
01:15of water inside. Everywhere. Everything is floating. Everything is sinking. Everything
01:20is dead. Everything is plasterboard. So everything is dead.
Comments