Le Cady

I went down to look at the river today. The Cady can be a trickle or on rare occasions a raging torrent. In 1940, on the day of the great 'aïguat', it received 800 mm of rain in 24 hours, more than the normal total annual rainfall and all the lower village was swept away. So now the small river runs between walls 10 metres high and 20 metres apart. This winter three days of rain filled this canalised section to the brim and much debris was swept downstream. There is still plenty of evidence of this at the end of the protective walls where I took this shot, piles of brushwood, a repaired bridge and uprooted trees. Such is the power of nature.