"It's been four times, four times this year," says Stephane, a resident of the French village of Pommeuse whose home, like many others, is partially underwater as a result of flooding brought on by Storm Kirk. The Seine-et-Marne region remains under a red flood alert after Kirk brought heavy rain to parts of France's south and east, with some 65,000 homes still without power. "We tried a wall of bin bags filled with sand," says Yohan, another Pommeuse resident, "but then it started to seep in." (COMPLETE VID36JR8Y7_EN) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES