Tidy post-flood village: in Bourthes (Pas-de-Calais), where the Aa flows, the village hall has regained the red color of its windows, the muddy gray has faded, the facades of the houses have been whitened again. Resilience is starting to show, two years after devastating floods affected more than 9,000 homes and caused losses of 1.7 billion euros in the department. This year, the Audomarois are under drought warning, and the river on the coast is just an invisible trickle of water on the river bed, among the green grass. It is quite surprising that there is interest in new investments in water management, such as diverting under roads to swales, ditches where flooding occurs, without causing the cows in the pasture to break their legs.
You have to beat the memory of memories, floating up to 1.50 meters, muddy, inside the house, in a strong current. He took out everything that was loosely attached, lifted the asphalt from the road, made a ditch in the road. A wooden plaque carved by Estelle Doutriaux’s father, mayor of Bourt
