Inondations

Yesterday morning I went to the supermarket on the other side of the river from our house. 
That involves driving along the river road to the old bridge in Saint-Aignan and crossing the river.
What I saw along the river road looked sort of like this.

I say I it looked "sort of like this" because this is a photo I took in March of 2006, when there was flooding about like what we're having here these days. Parts of France are underwater, especially from Brittany down the Atlantic Coast to Bordeaux and on to Toulouse. We're not getting the worst of it here, but it rains nearly every day in Saint-Aignan. More rain is predicted for tomorrow. Meanwhile, a tornado touched down this morning up north near the Belgian border.