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Les boucholeurs
2010.12.07
Nous restons / We stay
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Maison à détruire / House to be destroyed
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Pour être au bord de la mer, cette maison doit être rasée
Because it's located by the seaside, this house must be razed |
Rue des expulsés / Street of the expelled
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L'état va raser mon village / The state is going to rase my village
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July 23, 2010
Xynthia was a violent European windstorm which crossed Western Europe between 27 February and 1 March 2010. It reached a minimum pressure of 967 mb on 27 February. In France—where it was described by the civil defence as the most violent since Lothar and Martin in December 1999—at least 51 people were killed, with 12 more said to be missing. A further six people were killed in Germany, three in Spain, one in Portugal, one in Belgium and another one in England. Most of the deaths in France occurred when a powerful storm surge topped by battering waves up to 7.5 m (25 ft) high, hitting at high tide, smashed through the sea wall off the coastal town of L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer. A mobile home park built close to the sea wall was particularly hard-hit. The sea wall was about two hundred years old, built in the time of Napoleon; critics said that situating a mobile home park so close to the sea wall showed poor coastal development practices. The storm cut power to over a million homes in France and a million customers in Portugal lost power.
Xynthia was a violent European windstorm which crossed Western Europe between 27 February and 1 March 2010. It reached a minimum pressure of 967 mb on 27 February. In France—where it was described by the civil defence as the most violent since Lothar and Martin in December 1999—at least 51 people were killed, with 12 more said to be missing. A further six people were killed in Germany, three in Spain, one in Portugal, one in Belgium and another one in England. Most of the deaths in France occurred when a powerful storm surge topped by battering waves up to 7.5 m (25 ft) high, hitting at high tide, smashed through the sea wall off the coastal town of L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer. A mobile home park built close to the sea wall was particularly hard-hit. The sea wall was about two hundred years old, built in the time of Napoleon; critics said that situating a mobile home park so close to the sea wall showed poor coastal development practices. The storm cut power to over a million homes in France and a million customers in Portugal lost power.
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une tres belle serie mais dramatique pour ces habitants
photodeclair · 2010-12-07: 15:16
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La Flotte et alentours, non ?... Triste souvenir et aujourd'hui que deviennent ces gens expulsés de leur maison que l'on va détriure après avoir autorisé sa construction en sachant que cela était risqué ?
josy63 · 2010-12-07: 15:18
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Great set.
joycephotography · 2010-12-07: 16:32
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Great shots !!
finbarr · 2010-12-07: 18:17
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Gosh - I never heard about this.
Jarvo · 2010-12-07: 19:01
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somehow, natural disasters have become the only unfortunate things in human existence that are not so fucked up that they make we want to puke, like war, exploitation, dumb destruction of environment and political crimes do. when i hear about a storm killing people and wiping away houses, i always feel sad but it's this "good" sadness, the feeling we have when someone is hit by a higher power, by misfortune. these signs are signs left from fate; all the other shit happening are just remnants of our own stupidity.
stormfish · 2010-12-08: 03:54
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Interesting post.
SADHYA · 2010-12-08: 10:34
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really interesting post, i enjoyed it
farley · 2010-12-08: 15:06
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Une bien bonne série...A diffuser ....
amish · 2010-12-08: 18:20
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:-(
Allegra · 2011-01-04: 01:10
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