Parisians survived the 1948 flood in rain-soaked clothing.

Evidence

22 ‘Drowning victim’ and ‘shredded and tattered shirt’: Michelle Vian, Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 46, 48, quoting Pierre Drouin, ‘Tempète très parisienne’, Le Monde (16–17, May 1948), and Robert de Thomasson, Opéra (Oct. 1947) respectively. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1144