Floods of the Sambre in Pont-sur-Sambre

Just before the freezing time came, they were some floods of the river Sambre like here, behind the Cité Notre-Dame, in Pont-sur-Sambre. You can see how the meadows were getting some water. Behind on the left you can see also the blue bridge or Pont de Quartes, the one near the church. It was no great floods, this little floods arrived often in autumn and winter. In the nineties we had one time a flood during two weeks where all three bridges of Pont-sur-Sambre and the one between Aulnoye and Berlaimont was under water, so that we had to ride to Maubeuge to get a dry bridge. And make forty kilometers.

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32. .The way between the meadows.

This way is going over the meadows which were overfloaded by the Sambre. The water of the Sambre and of the overfloads was frozen this last week-end. When the overfload is very big the way is no more to walk on, but you must take a boat to go on it.
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To look at more picture of the overfload, look at my pictures in the Archive of April in my Pont-sur-Sambre Daily Photo (supplement). like this one.

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31. Overfloaded and frozen meadow.

You can see here how the meadows are at the same time under water and ice. the foot of the bushes is iced. It was on the last sunday and it is still cold now.

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30. The overfloading

Like I say it, we had at the beginning of the week a little overfload. This photo is taken in direction of the neighbour village Bachant, which is on the other side of the river Sambre. The overfload come from the river, but no house was undeer water. You can see also a hedge made of crossed trees and branches like we can see many in the country side.

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29. Frozen Overfloading.

On last Saturday we saw that the river Sambre had overfloaded at some parts. So we decided to come again here on Sunday to make photos. The Sambre had not overfloaded the houses and the caves but only the meadows. It was only a two days rain. The photo was taken near Bachant, a neighbour village of Pont-sur-Sambre.

Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 3/16/2006 10:46:00 AM

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Le même en allemand, the same in german, das gleiche auf Deutsch.

Le même en français, the same in french, das gleiche auf Französisch.

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