Article Photos: Floods in France prompt evacuations in shrine town



  A guardian of Lourdes sanctuary looks the Grotto of Lourdes flooded, in Lourdes, southwestern France, Saturday, Oct.20,2012. French rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

A guardian of Lourdes sanctuary looks the Grotto of Lourdes flooded, in Lourdes, southwestern France, Saturday, Oct.20,2012. French rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)