I woke up this morning to the sound of the rain crashing (and I mean crashing) down on the roof and it was freezing cold. Whatever breeze had blown away the clouds last night had been replaced by a strong wind that had blown them back again.
You can make up your own mind about the weather – I’ll just tell you that in the 24 hours to 22:00 this evening we had 23.5mm of rain. That’s just over 120mm (almost 5 inches) since a week last Friday. Or to put it in more frightening terms, an average of 12mm per day.
From this pic taken at the footy you can just about make out the Font Nanaud (the mountain pass between Pionsat and Gouttieres) in the distance through the rain. That’s the horizontal grey line at about 2/3rds height. You can see the darker squall clouds such as the one hovering over the goal. My estimate was that this particular cloud was at about 150 feet.
This cloud was one of many being slowly blown across the football pitch by the wind, drenching everyone and everything in tons of water. It was horrible.
All of the players were wringing their shirts out every so often and the linesman from Beauregard Vendon was running the line with his umbrella – a sight that I have never seen before and one that I probably won’t ever see again.
As for the football, Pionsat lost 4-0. But it has to be said that firstly Beauregard Vendon are leading the division by a country mile and are unbeaten throughout the season and secondly Francois the goalkeeper was carried off the field with a leg injury after just three minutes of the game.
This deprived Pionsat of the goalkeeper and Christophe who was playing up front went into the goal thus depriving the team of the centre-forward. In those circumstances a defeat was always on the cards.
Apart from the weather, what else can I say?
