Sunday 30 September 2012

Should have Waited for the Fat Lady

Went for lunch on Friday in Narbonne and found a traffic friendly route in.
Came back with time to partially pack and get organised. Still forecast to rain pretty much all day Saturday so wanted to be as ready as possible.
Saturday morning.....dry. Rode the 5k or so to the boulangerie as we were too late to order last night. Got back as dark clouds started to roll in and thunder began to rumble.
Sue put the tarp up to give us some shelter and finished just as the rain started.
It was gentle to start with but then it picked up just a bit. I was outside spilling water out of the tarp and Sue was inside looking after the inner tent.
The water level around us started to rise as water ran down from the higher parts of the site, and we weren't the lowest point!
I began to become concerned when firstly the saucepan started to float away followed by other tins and utensil.
At this point it became clear Sue was having problems of her own as the outer tent slowly submerged. Within moments the water had risen to start lapping over the inner tent skirt. We had left it late to get the sleeping bags into dry bags and only one got in reasonably dry.
As the inner tent started to fill up and the guy ropes started failing as the ground washed away around the pegs, the call went up to abandon tent.
We got as much stuff as possible into dry bags and into the bathroom.
We had to laugh, the last day, bloody hell.
Sue went off to reception to get warm and sort out a cabin.
I found our frying pan 100m away, and so far we still haven't found the big saucepan or the cutlery and some other bits. I'm going back out later when the water has gone down.
Sue's phone was submerged and she rescued her journal just in time.
So we're in a cabin with drying stuff everywhere waiting for the rain to stop.
It's supposed to be nice tomorrow.
Update...
Found the missing pan and most of the stuff. The pan was in a field at the far end of the site, and it's a big site.

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