Don't talk to Ms. Malet about the weather reports on television.
This retiree from National Education is constantly “grunting” in front of her station, “when they say that the only lucky ones who have sunshine are us!”
» An antiphon that also makes his 39-year-old daughter, Camille, jump.
“I'm screaming in front of my TV, my partner must be hallucinating,” she laughs, sitting at the kitchen table while a dish simmers in the oven.
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In their village of Rasiguères, in the heights of the Pyrénées-Orientales, the family desperately watches for drops.
This week, while the north of the country is shivering under rain and snow, it is 17°C here and only a few harmless clouds dot the blue sky.
The days follow one another and have often looked the same for almost two years, to the great despair of the residents.
Saying the word “drought” in front of them means seeing their face immediately tense up.
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