so it s going to be very, very slow drying all of this out and drying out all those homes and what not that were flooded. now, too early to tell about damages. but one of the security officials who used to be in charge around the paris area said in fact he would fully expect it would be in the hundreds of millions of euros. that s not only because of the river traffic cut off as rosemary mentioned. the merchandise boats that go up and down the seine. but also loss of commerce and the damage from waters themselves. another headache, at least for pair regio parisians is the commuter lane. the iric which goes along here has been flooded for a week now and probably won t be open until february. now people are turning their attention downstream there are still a number of major cities downstream and all this water is going to be headed in that direction very soon. all right, jim bittermann,